Fake or badly attributed
An American colleague drew my attention to yet another gem found in a publication that has been making the world laugh since its release in 2003. Here is a painting featured in the “catalogue raisonné”. One would therefore expect the work to be authentic. Although with this publication, you...
Confronted with a work to be analyzed, an artist’s expert calls on more than his or her first, instinctive impression (which in reality is the instantaneous sum of years of research and examination), his or her memory, emotion and the most advanced possible knowledge of the artist, his or...
Sold for $5,000 on 28 July in New York, this painting of the painter Théo Van Rysselberghe is NOT by Théo Van Rysselberghe. It is not a forgery but a work by another artist (perhaps his pupil Suzanne Wehler-Schlumberger). An interesting document, executed after the model around the 1920s....