Posted on 02/05/2016 9:20:49 AM PST by C19fan
In an art market governed largely by pretense and money, does a masterpiece have any intrinsic value? That question has emerged from a civil case brought by Sotheby’s chairman of Domenico de Sole and his wife, Eleanore, against Ann Freedman, former president of the Knoedler Gallery, the oldest and most respected gallery in New York until it closed in 2011 amidst a massive forgery scandal. Knoedler had sold some forty paintings claimed to be by abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko, all of which turned out to be forgeries created in Queens by a female artist named Pei-Shen Qian and peddled to the gallery by Glafira Rosales, a Long Island art dealer. (Rosales has already pled guilty to the scam; Qian, who fled to China, and two other co-conspirators currently in Spain, are awaiting extradition as part of an ongoing criminal investigation.)
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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?
The best work she did was on the scroll... but that wasn’t even in the original painting!
**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.
That's a crowded field.
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.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIVgUjj6RxU
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.
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’.
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
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
Why is it important to be able to spot a fake Rothko?
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