June 9, 2006

The Style of Numbers Behind a Number of Styles

By DANIEL ROCKMORE

In May 2005, the discovery of 32 previously unknown works by Jackson Pollock in a storage bin in Wainscott, Long Island, was announced by Alex Matter, a filmmaker whose family was friendly with the artist. Investigations of authenticity were undertaken, and recently we heard a pronouncement on the provenance of six of these works from Richard Taylor, a physicist at the University of Oregon and consultant to the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Taylor found "significant differences" between the