Why connoisseurship matters, ctd.
September 21 2012
I can't name names (this blog isn't registered in Ecuador), but there's a growing problem with fakes in regional English auction houses. They are spreading like an infection. So if you're tempted by a seemingly bargain late 19th Century or early & mid-20th Century picture, for goodness sake be careful...
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