Maybe the question to ask is not did a four-year-old paint these, but why do people pay so much for abstract works? I’m quite confident that those paintings could be by a child, but I’m not so confident that abstract works deserve any of the attention lavished on them.
Little Miss Marla Olmstead‘s been well-promoted.
Besides, who lets their kids play with oil paints? Do you know how hard that is to get out of the carpet?