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Stephen Glenn 'Steve' Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, author, playwright, producer, musician and composer. Martin came to public notice as a writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and later became a frequent guest on The Tonight Show. In the 1970s, Martin performed his offbeat, absurdist comedy routines before packed houses on national tours. Since the 1980s, having branched away from stand-up comedy, he has become a successful actor, playwright, pianist, and banjo player, eventually earning Emmy, Grammy, and American Comedy awards, among others.

This book is your ultimate resource for Steve Martin. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about his Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Steve Martin, Disneyland Dream, The Absent-Minded Waiter, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film), The Muppet Movie, The Jerk, Pennies from Heaven (1981 film), Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Man with Two Brains, The Lonely Guy, All of Me (1984 film), Three Amigos, Little Shop of Horrors (film), Roxanne (film), Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (film), Parenthood (film), My Blue Heaven (1990 film), L.A. Story, Father of the Bride (1991 film), Grand Canyon (1991 film), HouseSitter, Leap of Faith (film), And the Band Played On (film), A Simple Twist of Fate, Mixed Nuts, Father of the Bride Part II, Sgt. Bilko, The Spanish Prisoner, The Prince of Egypt, The Out-of-Towners (1999 film), Bowfinger, The Venice Project, Fantasia 2000, Joe Gould's Secret (film), Novocaine (film), Bringing Down the House (film), Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Cheaper by the Dozen (2003 film), Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, Shopgirl, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years, The Pink Panther (2006 film), Baby Mama (film), Traitor (film), The Pink Panther 2, It's Complicated (film), The Big Year, The Winds of Whoopie.

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Contents

Articles Steve Martin Disneyland Dream The Absent-Minded Waiter Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film) The Muppet Movie The Jerk Pennies from Heaven (1981 film) Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid The Man with Two Brains The Lonely Guy All of Me (1984 film) Three Amigos Little Shop of Horrors (film) Roxanne (film)

Planes, Trains and Automobiles Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (film) Parenthood (film) My Blue Heaven (1990 film) L.A. Story Father of the Bride (1991 film) Grand Canyon (1991 film) HouseSitter Leap of Faith (film) And the Band Played On (film) A Simple Twist of Fate Mixed Nuts Father of the Bride Part II Sgt. Bilko The Spanish Prisoner The Prince of Egypt The Out-of-Towners (1999 film) Bowfinger The Venice Project Fantasia 2000

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Joe Gould's Secret (film) Novocaine (film) Bringing Down the House (film) Looney Tunes: Back in Action Cheaper by the Dozen (2003 film) Jiminy Glick in Lalawood Shopgirl Cheaper by the Dozen 2 Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years The Pink Panther (2006 film) Baby Mama (film) Traitor (film) The Pink Panther 2 It's Complicated (film) The Big Year

The Winds of Whoopie

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Steve Martin

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Stephen Glenn Martin

August 14, 1945 Waco, Texas, United States

Concert, film, recordings, television, books

American

1967–present

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Martin in April 2011

Musical comedy, physical comedy, sketch comedy Music:bluegrass

[1] British television, Red Skelton, Jerry Lewis, Jack Benny, Laurel and Hardy, Wally Boag

[2] [3] Judd Apatow, Will Arnett, Louis C.K., Stephen Colbert, Eddie Izzard, Patton Oswalt, Lucy Porter, Sarah Silverman, Jon Stewart

[4] Victoria Tennant (1986–1994) Anne Stringfield (2007–present)

[5] www.stevemartin.com

Emmy Awards

Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy, Variety or Music 1969The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

Grammy Awards

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Best Comedy Album 1978Let's Get Small 1979A Wild and Crazy Guy Best Country Instrumental Performance 2002Foggy Mountain Breakdown Best Bluegrass Album 2009The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo

Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy 2000 Lifetime Achievement

All of Me(1984)

American Comedy Awards

NYFCC Award for Best Actor

Stephen Glenn"Steve"Martin(born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, author, playwright, producer, musician and composer. Martin came to public notice as a writer for theSmothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and later became a frequent guest onThe Tonight Show. In the 1970s, Martin performed his offbeat, absurdist comedy routines before packed houses on national tours. Since the 1980s, having branched away from stand-up comedy, he has become a successful actor, playwright, pianist, and banjo player, eventually earning Emmy, Grammy, and American Comedy awards, among others.

Early life [6] Martin was born in Waco, Texas, the son of Mary Lee (n e Stewart) and Glenn Vernon Martin, a real estate [4] [7] salesman and aspiring actor. Martin was raised in Inglewood, California, and then later in Garden Grove, [8] California, in a Baptist family. One of his earliest memories is of seeing his father, as an extra, serving drinks onstage at the Call Board Theatre on Melrose Place. During World War II, in England, Martin's father had appeared in a production ofOur Townwith Raymond Massey. Years later, he would write to Massey for help in Steve's fledgling career, but would receive no reply. Expressing his affection through gifts of cars, bikes, etc., Martin's father [9] was stern, and not emotionally open to his son. He was proud but critical, with Martin later recalling that in his [10] teens his feelings for his father were mostly ones of hatred. Martin's first job was at Disneyland, selling guidebooks on weekends and full-time during the summer school break. That lasted for three years (1955–1958). During his free time he frequented the Main Street Magic shop, where tricks were demonstrated to potential [9] customers. By 1960, he had mastered several of the tricks and illusions, and took a paying job there in August. [11] There he perfected his talents for magic, juggling, and creating balloon animals, frequently performing for tips. In his authorized biography, close friend Morris Walker suggests that Martin could "be described most accurately as an [12] agnostic [...] he rarely went to church and was never involved in organized religion of his own volition".

Comedy After high school graduation, Martin attended Santa Ana Junior College, taking classes in drama and English poetry. In his free time, he teamed up with friend and Garden Grove High School classmate Kathy Westmoreland to participate in comedies and other productions at the Bird Cage Theatre. He joined a comedy troupe at Knott's Berry [9] Farm. Later, he met budding actress Stormie Sherk, and they developed comedy routines and became romantically involved. Sherk's influence caused Martin to apply to the California State University, Long Beach, for enrollment [9] with a major in Philosophy. Stormie enrolled at UCLA, about an hour's drive north, and the distance eventually [13] caused them to lead separate lives. Inspired by his philosophy classes, Martin considered becoming a professor instead of an actor-comedian. His time at college changed his life. "It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.

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Something about non-sequiturs appealed to me. In philosophy, I started studying logic, and they were talking about cause and effect, and you start to realize, 'Hey, there is no cause and effect! There is no logic! There is no anything!' Then it gets real easy to write this stuff, because all you have to do is twist everything hard—you twist the punch [14] line, you twist the non sequitur so hard away from the things that set it up". Martin recalls wondering in a psychology class "What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and never released it? What if I headed for a climax, but all I delivered was an anticlimax? What would the audience do with all that tension? Theoretically, it would have to come out sometime. But if I kept denying them the formality of [15] a punch line, the audience would eventually pick their own place to laugh, essentially out of desperation." Martin periodically spoofed his philosophy studies in his 1970s stand-up act, comparing philosophy with studying geology. "If you're studying geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but philosophy you [16] remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life." In 1967, Martin transferred to UCLA and switched his major to theater. While attending college, he appeared in an episode ofThe Dating Game. Martin began working local clubs at night, to mixed notices, and at twenty-one he [17] dropped out of college.

Career

Early career–stand-up

In 1967, his former girlfriend Nina Goldblatt, a dancer onThe Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, helped Martin land a writing job with the show by submitting his work to head writer Mason [18] Williams. Williams initially paid Martin out of his own pocket. Along with the other writers for the show, Martin won anEmmy [19] [9] Awardin 1969, aged 23. He also wrote for John Denver (a neighbor of his in Aspen, Colorado, at one point),The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, andThe Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.Martin's first TV appearance was onThe Steve Allen Showin 1969. He says: "[I] appeared onThe Virginia Graham Show,circa 1970. I looked grotesque. I had a hairdo like a helmet, which I blow-dried to a puffy bouffant, for reasons I no longer understand. I wore a frock coat and a silk shirt, and my delivery was mannered, slow and self-aware. I had absolutely no authority. After reviewing the show, I was depressed for [20] a week." During these years his roommates included comedian [21] Gary Mule Deer and singer/guitarist Michael Johnson. Martin opened for groups such as The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Carpenters, and Toto. He appeared at San Francisco'sThe Boarding House, among Steve Martin, circa 1977 other venues. He continued to write, earning an Emmy nomination for his work onVan Dyke and Companyin 1976.

In the mid-1970s, Martin made frequent appearances as a stand-up comedian onThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny [20] Carson., and onThe Gong Show, HBO'sOn Locationand NBC'sSaturday Night Live(SNL).SNL's audience jumped by a million viewers when he made guest appearances, though despite a common misconception, he was [9] never a cast member. Martin has guest-hostedSaturday Night Live15 times, bested only in number of presentations by host Alec Baldwin (who has hosted 16 times as of September 2011). On the show, Martin [22] popularized the air quotes gesture, which uses four fingers to make double quote marks in the air. While on the

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show Martin became close with several of the cast members, including Gilda Radner. On the day Radner died of ovarian cancer in 1989, a visibly shaken Martin hostedSNLand featured footage of himself and Radner together in a 1978 sketch. [9] His TV appearances in the 1970s led to the release of comedy albums that went platinum. The track "Excuse Me" [9] on his first album,Let's Get SmallHis next album,, helped establish a national catch phrase. A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978), was an even bigger success, reaching the No.2 spot on the US sales chart, selling over a million copies. "Just [9] a wild and crazy guy" became another of Martin's known catch phrases. The album featured a character based on a series ofSaturday Night Livesketches where Martin and Dan Aykroyd played "Georgi" and "Yortuk" the Festrunk Brothers, a couple of bumbling Czechoslovak would-be playboys. The album ends with the song "King Tut", sung and written by Martin and backed by the "Toot Uncommons", members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. It was later [9] [23] released as a single, reaching No.17 on the US charts in 1978 and selling over a million copies. The song came out during the King Tut craze that accompanied the popular traveling exhibit of the Egyptian king's tomb artifacts. Both albums won Grammys forBest Comedy Recordingin 1977 and 1978, respectively. Martin performed "King Tut" on the April 22, 1978 edition ofSNL. On his comedy albums, Martin's stand-up is self-referential and sometimes self-mocking. It mixes philosophical riffs with sudden spurts of "happy feet", banjo playing with balloon depictions of concepts like venereal disease, and the controversial kitten juggling (he is a master juggler). His style is off-kilter and ironic, and sometimes pokes fun at stand-up comedy traditions, such as Martin opening his act (fromA Wild and Crazy Guy) by saying, "I think there's nothing better for a person to come up and do the same thing over and over for two weeks. This is what I enjoy, so I'm going to do the same thing over and over and over [...] I'm going to do the same joke over and over in the same [22] [24] show, it'll be like a new thing." Or: "Hello, I'm Steve Martin, and I'll be out here in a minute." In one comedy routine, used on theComedy Is Not Pretty!album, Martin claimed that his real name was "Gern Blanston". The riff took on a life of its own. There is a Gern Blanston website, and for a time a rock band took the moniker as their [25] [9] name. He stopped stand-up in 1981 to concentrate on movies and never went back.

Acting career–film

By the end of the 1970s, Martin had acquired the kind of following normally reserved for rock stars, with his tour appearances typically occurring at sold-out arenas filled with tens of thousands of screaming fans. But unknown to his audience, stand-up comedy was "just an [14] accident" for him; his real goal was to get into film.

Martin's first film was a short,The Absent-Minded Waiter(1977). The seven-minute-long film, also featuring Buck Henry and Teri Garr, was written by and starred Martin. The film was nominated for an Academy Award asBest Short Film, Live Action. He made his first feature film appearance in the musicalSgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, where he sang The Beatles' "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". In 1979, Martin co-wrote and starred in his first full-length movie,The Jerk, directed by Carl Reiner. The movie was a huge success, grossing [26] over $100amillion on a budget of approximately $4amillion.

Stanley Kubrick met with him to discuss the possibility of Martin Martin in 1982 starring in a screwball comedy version ofTraumnovelle(Kubrick later changed his approach to the material, the result of which was 1999'sEyes Wide Shut). Martin was executive producer forDomestic Life, a prime-time television series starring friend Martin Mull, and a late-night series called

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Twilight Theater. It emboldened Martin to try his hand at his first serious film,Pennies from Heaven, a movie he was anxious to perform in because of his desire to avoid being typecast. To prepare for that film, Martin took acting lessons from director Herbert Ross, and spent months learning how to tap dance. The film was a financial failure; [27] Martin's comment at the time was "I don't know what to blame, other than it's me and not a comedy." Martin was in three more Reiner-directed comedies afterThe Jerk:Dead Men Don't Wear Plaidin 1982,The Man [28] with Two Brainsin 1983 andAll of Mein 1984, possibly his most critically acclaimed comic performance to date. [29] In 1986, Martin joined fellowSaturday Night Liveveterans Martin Short and Chevy Chase in¡Three Amigos!, directed by John Landis, and written by Martin, Lorne Michaels, and singer-songwriter Randy Newman. It was originally entitledThe Three Caballerosand Martin was to be teamed with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. In 1986, Martin was in the movie musical film version of the hit Off-Broadway playLittle Shop of Horrors(based on a famous B-movie), playing the sadistic dentist, Orin Scrivello. The film was the first of three films teaming Martin with Rick Moranis. In 1987, Martin joined comedian John Candy in the John Hughes moviePlanes, Trains & Automobiles.That same year,Roxanne, the film adaptation ofCyrano de Bergeracwhich Martin co-wrote, won him a Writers Guild of America, East award. It also garnered recognition from Hollywood and the public that he was more than a comedian. In 1988, he performed in the Frank Oz filmDirty Rotten Scoundrels, a remake ofBedtime Story, alongside Michael Caine. Martin starred in the Ron Howard filmParenthood, with Moranis in 1989. He later met with Moranis to make the Mafia comedyMy Blue Heavenin 1990. In 1991, Martin starred in and wroteL.A. Story, a romantic comedy, in which the female lead was played by his then-wife Victoria Tennant. Martin also appeared in Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon, in which he played the tightly-wound Hollywood film producer, Davis, who was recovering from a traumatic robbery that left him injured, which was a more serious role for him. Martin also appeared in a remake of the comedyFather of the Bridein 1991 (followed by a sequel in 1995). He starred in the 1992 comedyHouseSitter, with Goldie Hawn and Dana Delany. In David Mamet's 1997 thriller,The Spanish Prisoner, Martin played a darker role as a wealthy stranger who takes a suspicious interest in the work of a young businessman (Campbell Scott). He went on to star with Eddie Murphy in the 1999 comedyBowfinger,which Martin also wrote. He appeared in a version ofWaiting for Godotas Vladimir, with Robin Williams as Estragon and Bill Irwin as Lucky. In 1998, Martin guest starred with U2 in the 200th episode ofThe Simpsonstitled "Trash of the Titans", providing the voice for sanitation commissioner Ray Patterson. In 1999, Martin and Hawn starred in a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy,The Out-of-Towners. By 2003, Martin ranked 4th on the box office stars list, after starring inBringing Down The HouseandCheaper By The Dozen, each of which earned over $130amillion at U.S. theaters. That same year, he also played the villainous Mr. Chairman in the animation/live action blend,Looney Tunes: Back in Action. Martin wrote and starred inShopgirl(2005), based on his own novella (2000), and starred inCheaper by the Dozen 2. He also starred in the box office hitThe Pink Pantherin 2006, standing in Peter Sellers's shoes as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, a role which he reprised in 2009'sThe Pink Panther 2. InBaby Mama(2008), he played the founder of a health food company, and inIt's Complicated(2009), he played opposite Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin. In 2009, an article inThe Guardianlisted Martin as one of the best actors never to receive an Oscar [30] nomination. He appeared with Jack Black, Owen Wilson, and JoBeth Williams in the birdwatching comedyThe Big Year, in 2011.

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Writing

In 1993, Martin wrote his first full length playPicasso at the Lapin Agile. The first reading of the play took place in Beverly Hills, California at Steve Martin's home, with Tom Hanks reading the role of Pablo Picasso and Chris Sarandon reading the role of Albert Einstein. Following this, the play opened at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois, and played from October 1993 to May 1994, then went on to run successfully in Los Angeles, New York City and [31] several other US cities. In 2009, the La Grande, Oregon school board refused to allow the play to be performed after several parents complained about the content. In an open letter in the localObserver newspaper, Martin wrote "I have heard that some in your community have characterized the play as 'people drinking in bars, and treating Martin at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival women as sex objects.' With apologies to William Shakespeare, this is like callingHamleta play about a castle [...] I will finance a non-profit, off-high school campus production [...] so that individuals, outside the jurisdiction of the school board but within the guarantees of freedom of expression provided by the Constitution of the United States can determine whether they [32] will or will not see the play".

Throughout the 1990s, Martin wrote various pieces forThe New Yorker. In 2002, he adapted the Carl Sternheim play The Underpants, which ran Off Broadway at Classic Stage Company and in 2008, co-wrote and producedTraitor, starring Don Cheadle. He has also written the novellas,Shopgirl(2000), andThe Pleasure of My Company(2003), [33] both more wry in tone than raucous. A story of a 28-year-old woman behind the glove counter at the Neiman [33] Marcus department store in Beverly Hills,Shopgirlwas made into a film starring Martin and Claire Danes. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2005 and was featured at the Chicago International Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival before going into limited release in the US. In 2007, he published a memoir, Born Standing Up, whichTIMEmagazine named as one of the Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2007, ranking it at #6, [34] and praising it as "a funny, moving, surprisingly frank memoir." In 2010, he published the novelAn Object of Beauty.

Hosting [35] Martin hosted Academy Awards solo in 2001 and 2003 and with Alec Baldwin in 2010. In 2005, Martin co-hostedDisneyland: The First 50 Magical Years, marking the park's anniversary. Disney continued to run the show until March 2009, which now plays in the lobby ofGreat Moments with Mr. Lincoln.

Music Martin first picked up the banjo when he was around the age of seventeen. Martin has claimed in several interviews and in his autobiography, "Born Standing Up" that he used to take 33 rpm bluegrass records and slow them down to 16 rpm and tune his banjo down, so the notes would sound the same. Martin was able to pick out each note, and perfect his playing. Martin learned how to play the banjo with help from John McEuen who later joined the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. McEuen's brother later managed Martin as well as the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Martin did his standup routine opening for the band in the early seventies. He had the band play on his hit, "King Tut" where they were credited as The Toot Uncommons (Tutankhamen).

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The banjo was a staple of Martin's 1970s stand-up career and he periodically poked fun at his love for the [20] instrument. On theComedy Is Not Pretty!album he included an all-instrumental jam, titled "Drop Thumb Medley", and played the track on his 1979 concert tour. His final comedy album, 1981'sThe Steve Martin Brothers, featured one side of Martin's typical stand-up material, with the other side featuring live performances of Steve playing banjo with a bluegrass band.

In 2001, he played banjo on Earl Scruggs's remake of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown". The recording was the Steve Martin playing with the Steep Canyon Rangers in Seattle winner of the Best Country Instrumental Performance category at the following year's Grammys. In 2008, [36] Martin appeared with the band, In the Minds of the Living, during a show in Myrtle Beach.

In 2009, Martin released his first all-music album,The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjowith appearances [37] [38] from stars such as Dolly Parton. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album in 2010. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band member John McEuen produced the Album. [39] Martin made his first appearance on The Grand Ole Opry on May 30, 2009. In theAmerican IdolSeason 8 Finals, he performed alongside Michael Sarver and Megan Joy in the song "Pretty Flowers". In June, Martin played banjo along with the Steep Canyon Rangers onA Prairie Home Companion, and began a two-month U.S. tour with the Rangers in September, including an appearances at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, Carnegie Hall and [40] [41] Benaroya Hall in Seattle. In November, they went on to play at the Royal Festival Hall in London with [42] support from Mary Black. In 2010, Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers appeared at the New Orleans [43] Jazzfest, Merlefest Bluegrass Festival in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, at Bonnaroo Music Festival, at the ROMP Bluegrass festival in Owensboro, at the Red Butte Garden Concert series and on the BBC'sLater... with Jools [44] [45] HollandMartin performed "Jubilation Day" with the Steep Canyon Rangers on. Steve The Colbert Reporton [46] March 21, 2011, on Conan on May 3, 2011 and on BBC'sThe One ShowMartin performed aon July 6, 2011. [47] song he wrote called "Me and Paul Revere" in addition to two other songs on the lawn of the Capitol Building in [48] Washington, DC, at the "Capitol Fourth Celebration" on July 4, 2011.

Personal life Martin was romantically involved with actress and singer Bernadette Peters, his costar in the filmsThe Jerkand Pennies from Heaven, during the 1970s and early 1980s. He married actress Victoria Tennant on November 20, 1986, and the union lasted until 1994. On July 28, 2007, after three years together, Martin married Anne Stringfield, [49] a writer and former staffer forThe New YorkerNebraska Senator Bob Kerrey presided over themagazine. Former [49] ceremony at Martin's Los Angeles home. Lorne Michaels, creator ofSaturday Night LiveSeveral, was best man. of the guests, including close friends Tom Hanks, Eugene Levy, comedian Carl Reiner, and magician/actor Ricky Jay were not informed that a wedding ceremony would take place. Instead, they were told they were invited to a [49] party, and were surprised by the nuptials. Investigators at Berlin's state criminal police office (LKA) think that Martin was one victim of a German art forgery scandal. In July 2004 Martin purchased what he believed to be a 1915 work by the German-Dutch painter Heinrich Campendonk, "Landschaft mit Pferden", or "Landscape With Horses", from a Paris gallery for what should have been a bargain price in the neighborhood of€700,000 (around $850,000 at the time). Before the purchase an expert authenticated the work and identified the painter's signature on a label attached to the back. Fifteen months later