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Why It’s So Hard to Spot a Fake Rothko, Even for His Son
Daily Beast ^ | February 5, 2016 | Lizzie Crocker

Posted on 02/05/2016 9:20:49 AM PST by C19fan

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To: Boogieman
Well, it looks like a perfectly good job of restoration to me.


21 posted on 02/05/2016 10:27:37 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Ha! That looks great, hopefully some day I can check it out. Love Orson Wells, hate modern art except for its influence on graphic design.

What do you think of Crystal Bridges?


22 posted on 02/05/2016 10:29:12 AM PST by To Hell With Poverty (America is back - and she's PISSED! - CoadToad)
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To: Billthedrill

The best work she did was on the scroll... but that wasn’t even in the original painting!


23 posted on 02/05/2016 10:48:19 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
The fur hat was just about perfect. Uh...that was a fur hat, right?
24 posted on 02/05/2016 10:51:36 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: To Hell With Poverty

**What do you think of Crystal Bridges?***

Crystal Bridges is great! I saw the Norman Rockwell exhibit there a couple of years ago. Been back a few times. They had on loan from Gilcrease in Tulsa some W R Leigh paintings.
One painting of riverboat men I really wanted to see was on loan to the Louvre in Paris.


25 posted on 02/05/2016 10:51:45 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Albion Wilde
Rothko's work is perhaps the prime example of "emperor-has-no-clothes" posturing in the art world.

That's a crowded field.

26 posted on 02/05/2016 11:18:35 AM PST by LexBaird (Tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
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To: C19fan

In modern art, greatness has moved from the actual piece of work to the words used to describe said work. I.e., the critics are the artists.


27 posted on 02/05/2016 12:03:45 PM PST by Moltke
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To: Billthedrill

Where did you get that pic? Was it really a restoration job? I’m eating at a pizza joint and was laughing out loud at the picture.


28 posted on 02/05/2016 12:34:01 PM PST by Sawdring
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To: Sawdring
That was a link from HuffPo column to the original article. The lady who did it...uh...meant well...
29 posted on 02/05/2016 1:17:37 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: C19fan
For those who may want to take a look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIVgUjj6RxU

F for Fake 1973 - FULL MOVIE

Description:F for Fake (French: Vérités et mensonges, "Truths and lies") is the last major film completed by Orson Welles, who directed, co-wrote, and starred in the film. Initially released in 1974, it focuses on Elmyr de Hory's recounting of his career as a professional art forger; de Hory's story serves as the backdrop for a fast-paced, meandering investigation of the natures of authorship and authenticity, as well as the basis of the value of art. Loosely a documentary, the film operates in several different genres and has been described as a kind of film essay.

Far from serving as a traditional documentary on Elmyr de Hory, the film also incorporates Welles's companion Oja Kodar, notorious "hoax-biographer" Clifford Irving, and Orson Welles as himself.

30 posted on 02/05/2016 1:19:53 PM PST by Stanwood_Dave ("Testilying." Cop's don't lie, they just Testily{ing} as taught in their respected Police Academy.)
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Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Earlier Mona Lisa’ unveiled

This website is dedicated to the work of The Mona Lisa Foundation, presenting Leonardo da Vinci’s earlier version of his most celebrated painting, the ‘Mona Lisa’.

http://monalisa.org/

Mona Lisa: Leonardo’s Earlier Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISowhGz5wnk

Is there a SECOND Mona Lisa? Experts examine claims a version of the da Vinci masterpiece is held in a private Russian collection
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3357224/Is-SECOND-Mona-Lisa-Experts-examine-claims-version-da-Vinci-masterpiece-held-private-Russian-collection.html


31 posted on 02/13/2016 12:48:24 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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Revealed: The OTHER Mona Lisa. Second portrait of a woman is spotted under da Vinci’s masterpiece
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3350687/Is-hidden-painting-beneath-Mona-Lisa-s-smile-SECOND-portrait-woman-spotted-Da-Vinci-s-masterpiece.html


32 posted on 02/13/2016 12:49:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: C19fan

Why is it important to be able to spot a fake Rothko?


33 posted on 02/13/2016 12:51:46 AM PST by cynwoody
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isleworth_Mona_Lisa


34 posted on 02/13/2016 12:52:56 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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