ABOVE: detail from one of 22 newly discovered Jackson Pollock drip paintings. The trove of work, which also includes two works on paper and eight experiments on canvas, gathered dust in an East Hampton warehouse for more than 30 years.

America’s biggest name in abstract expressionism, Jackson Pollock (can we popularize “J. Po”?), haunts us still as 32 previously unknown paintings attributed to him surfaced yesterday, according to numerous news reports.

Apparently the cache of paintings—22 of Pollock’s distinctive “drip paintings,” two enamels on paper, and eight duds, or “experiments,” as the experts insist on calling them—spent the last half-century in a Manhattan boiler room and an East Hampton warehouse, wrapped in kraft paper and covered in soot. Alex Matter, whose parents were pals with Pollock and Lee Krasner, found the paintings among the family knick-knackery after his parents died. Matter had the paintings authenticated before telling the newspapers, so this sounds like the real deal.

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LINK: Reuters > Trove of Jackson Pollock artwork uncovered