In an article about the use of the catalogue raisonne to defend the integrity of an artist’s oeuvre (“Defending the Integrity of an Artist’s Life’s Work”,The Wall Street Journal, December 7, 2011), Jack Flam notes that when connoisseurship, provenance and historical context are not enough to place a work in or out of an artist’s oeuvre, forensic testing is undetaken to determine whether the materials and techniques are in line with the artist’s practice and time period. He then states, “But because disclosing such information might provide a road map for future forgers, most caaalogue raisonne projects do not give detailed reasons for a work’s exclusion.” Should the fear of providing tips to forgers preclude the public sharing of information about artists’ materials and techniques? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In an article about the use of the catalogue raisonne to defend the integrity of an artist’s oeuvre (“Defending the Integrity of an Artist’s Life’s Work”,The Wall Street Journal, December 7, 2011), Jack Flam notes that when connoisseurship, provenance and historical context are not enough to place a work in or out of an artist’s … Continue reading “Fear of Forgers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}