$1.5 million for that!? I've got an old painting drop cloth that looks like this painting. Perhaps I should contact the museum.
I would rather have a picture painted by elephants!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/06/0626_020626_elephant.html
Another conman/"artist" by the name of Jackson Pollock already beat that scam to death. He sold a bunch of drop cloths he called paintings.