Jackson Pollock: $50 Million

They say every dog has its day so this truck driver was no exception to this notion. Teri Horton was not much of a person who would go to lengths to prove the authenticity of things. However, this nature was bent a little when she had to prove the authenticity of one particular painting. She had fallen in love with a painting which she found at a California thrift shop. It cost her just $5 to buy this piece of art when she first got hands on it. She was contemplating on whether she should make this painting a base for throwing darts. But soon she discovered that they were original pieces of artwork done by Jackson Pollock. She even said,”who the [expletive] is Jackson Pollock?” She was so oblivious to the whole art world so of course, she did not know who Pollock was. Her story was even made into a documentary and this painting is now worth $50 million.