Jackson Pollock, Teri Horton Case Study

Peter Paul Biro and Ex-Con Tod Volpe Hit The "Mark": Or The Nuts and Bolts of an Elaborate Art Investment Scheme

As most in the art world now know, Peter Paul Biro is suing the New Yorker magazine and its writer, David Grann, and others for defamation. This third article in our continuing series will focus... Read More

Peter Paul Biro and His Wacky and Wild Tale of Conspiracy: or How Does One Canadian Art Restorer Fool So Many For So Long?

As promised, this is the second article in what will be a continuing series of articles on the Fine Art Registry investigation into Peter Paul Biro and company. You will recall from our initial... Read More

Pinhead Peter Paul Biro Awakens Sleeping Giants-Sues New Yorker Magazine: and Award-Winning Writer David Grann and Takes Swipe at Fine Art Registry®

BREAKING NEWS: The self-proclaimed "art authenticator" (cough-cough) Peter Paul Biro, has foolishly thrown down the gauntlet, accusing award-winning writer, David Grann and Conde Nast... Read More

Truth to Power #38: New Yorker Magazine/Peter Paul Biro & Questions That BEG Answers!

A fascinating article entitled "The Mark Of A Masterpiece" has just been published in the world renowned and highly respected magazine The New Yorker. Teri is grateful to the author David Grann... Watch Video

Alleged Pollock Fingerprints: An Independent Expert's Review

Peter Paul Biro fingerprint evidence in Jackson Pollock painting "Authentication" found to be invalid by veteran fingerprint examiner, Tom Hanley, commissioned by Global Fine Art Registry, LLC. Play Video

What Price Forensics?: Another Possible Jackson Pollock Surfaces

Another tale involving Paul Biro "authenticating" a possible Jackson Pollock (a different one), the same fingerprint, the same Tod Volpe in the background with schemes to separate the unwary... Read More

The Hallmark of Authenticity, Origin: or Artist, Secure Your Own Provenance!

California truck driver Teri Horton bought a painting for $5 in a San Bernardino thrift shop in the early 1990s. She showed her painting to an art teacher who thought it could be by American abst... Read More

False Dichotomy in Art Authentication: Forensics and Informed Intuition Don't Have to Fight

Blame it on television. Millions of Americans watch those crime shows, the ones in which earnest lab techs on a mission to protect the innocent routinely leave their hermetically sealed lab envir... Read More

Art Dealers: Honest or Crooked?

The art dealer is perhaps one of the most widely misunderstood and largely unappreciated professions in the art industry. There are no regulations or any other standards to which an art dealer... Read More

The Legal Perspective: A Response to Teri Horton's Comment Regarding Authentication

The Legal Perspective was written to provide further information regarding this interchange between Ms. Teri Horton and FAR CEO Theresa Franks, following Ms. Horton’s comments on the... Read More

Art Brokers, Part I: Let the Buyer Beware... Very Beware

An art broker is a matchmaker, connecting art owners, be they artists, collectors, or investors, with art purchasers. Like real estate brokers, art brokers do frequently get up to their elbows in... Read More

Getting to the Truth of Authentication

"Authentication" and "Provenance" defined. Before I launch into the meat of this article, I think it is appropriate to begin with defining two important terms used frequently in the visual art ma... Read More

But If It Isn't: What Does It Mean If the Pollock Isn’t a Pollock?

It sounds like a real-life version of the fairy tale we all want to believe can be true: the $5 thrift shop find turns out to be a multi-million dollar work of fine art by a famous artist... Read More

Taking up Where Jackson Pollock Left Off: Frankie Brown

Francis Hogan ("Frankie") Brown is a master of splatter-dash painting and a lot more besides. Play Video

Frankie Brown: Taking up Where Jackson Pollock Left Off

Francis Hogan (“Frankie”) Brown is a master of splatter-dash painting and a lot more besides… In 1999, in celebration of his 20th year of painting in the splatter-dash genre, which he began... Read More

Pat A. Wertheim Pollock Fingerprint Investigation DVD

Pat A. Wertheim Presents a Landmark Report on the Historic Fingerprint Forgery Investigation into Alleged Jackson Pollock Fingerprints in a documenary DVD commissioned by Fine Art Registry®.

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Artist-Dealer Relationships: Art and The Law Lecture CD #5

A lecture on compact disc with attorney Gail Christensen and FAR® CEO Theresa Franks discussing statutes covering artist-dealer relationships.

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Art Authentication: Art and The Law Lecture CD #4

A lecture on compact disc with attorney Gail Christensen and FAR® CEO Theresa Franks discussing art authentication.

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Fine Art Registry Commissions Further Independent Examination of Fingerprints Claimed By Montreal Self-Styled "Forensic Expert" Paul Biro To "Authenticate" Possible Pollock Paintings

A just issued preliminary report from Thomas Hanley, Chief of Police in Middlebury, Vermont, and veteran fingerprint examiner with close to 30 years experience in fingerprint identification, casts doubts on Paul Biro’s claims of proving "authenticity" of a possible Pollock painting belonging to the Parker family of Long Island. Biro claimed that the "Jackson Pollock fingerprint" he found on the back of the Parkers’ painting was "the same print as the one on Teri Horton’s painting." Biro’s much media-hyped work on the Horton painting has been withheld from peer scrutiny by Horton and Biro.
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Art & Antiques Magazine: April 2007 issue, featured two articles about Fine Art Registry®

Not one but two Fine Art Registry® related articles appeared in the April 2007 issue of art&antiques as well as a reference to FAR® as a resource in protecting your art from theft. The first article Thumbs Down in Pollock Fingerprint Analysis, concerns fingerprint examiner Thomas Hanley’s findings from his investigation in art restorer Peter Paul Biro’s forensic "authentication" of the painting bought by Teri Horton which has since attained notoriety as a possible Jackson Pollock. The other article in art&antiques, Antiques Worth $1 Million Stolen in West Palm Beach, was a report on the $1 million furniture and antiques theft from antique dealers Andrew and Kelly Vogel which was also reported on in depth on the FAR website here.

Review of Fingerprints in Teri Horton Alleged Jackson Pollock Case Casts Doubt on the Forensic Evide

Accredited fingerprint examiner and police chief Thomas Hanley has completed an independent review, commissioned by Fine Art Registry®, of the fingerprint analysis carried out by Peter Paul Biró which was used to substantiate claims that a painting bought for $5 in a California thrift store by Teri Horton, was the work of Jackson Pollock.

Horton Painting Fingerprint Analysis Report

Official reports, documenting the FAR® commissioned fingerprint analysis of the Teri Horton painting which is claimed to be a Jackson Pollock, are now online for public viewing.

• Fingerprint Examination Report - PDF (62 Kb)
• Investigation Report - Fingerprint Examination - PDF (109 Kb)
• Curriculum Vitae - Fingerprint Examiner - PDF (55 Kb)

Fine Art Registry® Commissions Independent Forensic Review of Alleged Jackson Pollock Fingerprin

Global Fine Art Registry, LLC., has commissioned an independent review of the latent fingerprint evidence claimed by Peter Paul Biro and Teri Horton to be the key indicator that the painting Horton bought for $5 in a California thrift store is a genuine Jackson Pollock.

The Latest in the Teri Horton/Jackson Pollock Saga: FAR® Newsletter

Questionable art brokers, respected art experts, a Hollywood producer and now fingerprint analysts have joined Teri Horton’s fray in an attempt to prove whether or not her unregistered, uncertified $5 painting with no recorded provenance is an authentic Jackson Pollock or the work of another artist.

Art & Antiques Magazine: Publishes Article about Fine Art Registry Member, Francis Brown

Once again, Fine Art Registry is in the news in Art & Antiques, the nation’s leading publication for the art and antiques market. FAR® member, Frankie Brown, is featured with one of his splatter-dash paintings inspired by the work of Jackson Pollock. Frankie wants a close-up look to be sure, but he feels that the painting which belongs to Teri Horton and which has been loudly touted to be by Jackson Pollock may well be one of his own. Fine Art Registry is working to get to the truth of the situation. If you haven’t seen the article in Art & Antiques, go out and buy the January 2007 issue and read it for yourself.

Latest development in the story behind the recently released Who The #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? movie

Painter and expert on Jackson Pollock states that the painting in the recently released movie Who The #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?, is definitely not a Pollock painting but more likely likely one of his own.