Breaking: Harvard's Pollock Study

Nobody at Harvard will talk to us, but the study is up online.

Here's the top of the story that should appear in tomorrow's paper and, in shorter form, at Boston.com any minute.

Three paintings at the heart of a bitter dispute over whether they were painted by Jackson Pollock use materials not available during the artist's lifetime, according to a study released yesterday by the Harvard University Art Museums.
The year-long study found that a pigment in one of the paintings wasn't introduced as artist's paint until 1996, and a pigment in a second work has been available only since 1971. Pollock died in 1956, having completed his most famous works from 1947 to 1950.
The report adds to a growing body of research that questions whether a trove of 32 works discovered in 2003 could have been painted by Pollock, whose masterworks are regularly sold for millions at auction. One large painting recently fetched $140 million at auction.
Still, its release has not discouraged Boston College's McMullen Museum of Art from exhibiting the disputed paintings. Yesterday the McMullen announced that an exhibition, "Pollock Matters," would open in September.