JACKSON POLLOCK PAINTING FOUND IN ARIZONA GARAGE

An original Jackson Pollock painting that has been sitting in a garage for years, and is now expected to fetch $10 to $15 million when it hits the auction block on June 20. The Josh Levine Auction & Appraisal company stumbled upon the Pollock, along with several other paintings from notable artists, when they were called out to perform appraisals for an estate sale in Sun City, Arizona. The paintings had all belonged to the homeowner’s estranged sister, Jenifer Gordon, a New York socialite who hung out with the city’s rich and famous, including Peggy Guggenheim and Clement Greenberg, an American modern art critic. All of the artists in this find were in the circle of Jackson Pollock. There were 14 originals from these artists, and they were all her friends. When she died, her brother closed down her estate, shipping all the paintings to his home, not knowing what he had.
(The other paintings found, and we’ve never heard of them, were by Kenneth Noland, Hazel Guggenheim McKinley, Jules Olitski and Cora Kelley Ward.)
* Finding A Jackson Pollock in your garage is better than finding THE Jackson Pollock in your garage.
* I’ve got a Jackson Pollock in MY garage! Or maybe it’s a drop cloth from when we painted the bathrooms.
* Maybe the brother was more of a car guy.
* I’m sure in Arizona, everybody hangs art in their garage. Me? A couple of lawn tools and a ladder.