Optimism
April 4 2012
Picture: Mail/SWNS.com
We've had a few cases lately where the press have picked up on 'discovery' stories, only for there to be absolutely no evidence to support the claims. For example, the stolen 'Van Dyck seized by police in Rome, which wasn't a Van Dyck. And now here's another example, a coloured in drawing bought for £3 in a junk sale from a drug addict, which is claimed as a £1.3m work by the ten year old Warhol. Despite there being nothing to back up the claim, the story has gone global.
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- Master of the Blue Jeans donated to Pinacoteca cantonale G. Züst
- Imminent Release: The Cultural Work of the Early Modern Dutch Portrait - Amalia van Solms and the Shape of the Self in European Art
- Aert de Gelder conserved by Kremer Collection
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