“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE”

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A 7-foot painting that may or may not be the work of famed pop artist Keith Haring went on sale on eBay Friday night. Opening bid: 99 cents.The seller is a Pennsylvania man, Ed Oswald, who believes the "Hope" painting to be an original Haring.But his cousin Kermit Oswald, a childhood friend of Haring and one of the world's leading authorities on his work, has long said it's a knockoff. As a result, the eBay listing does not claim the painting is an authentic Haring. Instead, buyers will bid on "an original painting on board from the 1980's in a remarkable likeness and style of a Keith Haring, with a very interesting story & provenance."