When she saw him holding up the match in the documentary “Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?, ” she demanded that he give it back, and he eventually returned it.

At the Met, the encyclopaedic range - encompassing everything from Jackson Pollock to medieval armour - is as dazzling as at the Louvre, but there place itself has more quirkiness, more personality.

As she put it, it is certain that the painting "is not a Jackson Pollock."