Jackson Pollock's style was abstract expressionism . His paintings sell for between $20million to $50million personally I find it difficult/impossible to justify the value.

Here are a couple of things said about him:

"Pollock dripped paint onto canvas to convey the emotion of movement. He explored themes including surrealist navigation of the unconscious and Jungian symbolism"

"Jackson Pollock's greatness lies in developing one of the most radical abstract styles in the history of modern art, detaching line from color, redefining the categories of drawing and painting, and finding new means to describe pictorial space"

All that aside I needed a large painting for a fairly expensive house I am building. (for myself) The tiles in the house will be light grey and I wanted something to tie in that was abstract, original and worth the coin.

I acquired this painting, I won't give the name of the artist at this stage as you may Google and value. Only clue - Artist is multi-millionaire not some tosser from ebay.

The question I have to ask is whether it was worth the $17,500. I know that all art is subjective but I am interested in opinions.

Sometimes, IMHO, Art is shit-10-jpg

This is not the painting in situ but a crappy pic taken by me to allow you to see. Wall in background is cream will be off white in it's new home.

The painting is signed in Reverso and has a certificate of authenticity Dimensions are 130cm x 130cm