AZUSA, Calif.—Azusa Pacific University will exhibit a group of paintings that may or may not be by Jackson Pollock, reports the L.A. Times. "Revisiting Pollock," on view October 4–11, features undocumented works done in the artist's trademark style, with pigment poured and dripped in irregular patterns. It's an unusual exhibition for a evangelical Christian university committed to putting "God first," but one that could prove to be very lucrative.

The paintings belong to Erich Gabor Neumeth, 89, a German Luftwaffe pilot in World War II who changed sides and became a British and American intelligence agent. Neumeth, who is currently developing an autobiographical documentary with university trustee Howard Kazanjian, said that he eventually became an art restorer in New York and received a group of paintings ascribed to Pollock in the 1960s as payment of debt. Neumeth makes no claims about the authenticity of the works and declined to say how many paintings he had, but hoped to put some out for the public to judge, and to sell others to finance his documentary. Neumeth has told the university he is willing to donate a portion of sales proceeds.

According to Neumeth, the paintings were given to him by Armin Hershkowish, an art world colleague who said at the time that he had purchased them from Pollock's mistress, the artist Ruth Kligman. But Kligman, who survived the car accident that killed Pollock, dismissed the account completely.

"I do not know or have I ever met either gentleman nor did I ever have the seventeen paintings in question to sell to anyone," she said. "As far as I am concerned it is a total fabrication."

The university is publishing a 40-page illustrated catalog for the exhibition. Art historian G. James Daichendt, a new faculty member and organizer of the event, has not taken a public stand as to whether the paintings are authentic. In his catalog essay, he explores issues of authenticity, attribution, and provenance.