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Fake or Fortune series.
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Did anyone see the programme "Fake or Fortune" last Sunday?
So much evidence was thrown up to suggest the landsape painting the owner possessed was in fact a Monet, but the Wildenstein Institute that is responsible for the Monet collection thought otherwise, and in my mind the institute came across as a little offhanded and arrogant at best.
Do you believe it was a Monet??
So much evidence was thrown up to suggest the landsape painting the owner possessed was in fact a Monet, but the Wildenstein Institute that is responsible for the Monet collection thought otherwise, and in my mind the institute came across as a little offhanded and arrogant at best.
Do you believe it was a Monet??
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Yes I did & can't believe that no-one has told the Wildensteins where to go & what to do when they get there!
20:17 Sat 25th Jun 2011
I don't think the Monet collectors would touch it with a bargepole after the Wildenstein's pronouncement. Have you ever seen such sheer arrogance in proclaiming that their judgement was not based on the evidence, but on their own ''connoisseur-ship''. I.e. If we don't think it's a Monet, then it can't be. I reckon they are just too full of their own self-importance to admit that Wildenstein senior was wrong when he made the original declaration that it wasn't by Monet.
It's "The Emperor's New Clothes" - everyone's afraid of being the first to question the mighty House of Wildenstein! Gather all the other experts, have them issue a statement that Wildenstein is naked & see what happens to the supercilious morons then...
... If nothing's achieved, it'd still be fun!
... If nothing's achieved, it'd still be fun!
auctioning won't do you much good; collectors are unlikely going to risk millions of dollars (the difference between a real Monet and a fake) on something that an accepted authority says is a fake. Even if they're wrong you'd have trouble selling it on; you'd be betting they'd change their minds, and they mightn't.
It didn't look that much like other Monets I've seen, and for all I know it could well be a forgery. But the evidence in favour of it being real seemed pretty persuasive.
Prof House had a letter in the paper yesterday
http://www.guardian.c...24/monet-in-the-frame
It didn't look that much like other Monets I've seen, and for all I know it could well be a forgery. But the evidence in favour of it being real seemed pretty persuasive.
Prof House had a letter in the paper yesterday
http://www.guardian.c...24/monet-in-the-frame
It's snobs like these Wildenstein's that say that Vettriano isn't an artist and that his paintings are of no artistic value. I love Vettriano's paintings - and that is what counts.
I didn't see the programme but the experts were asked only for their opinion of the painting - that is all it should have - an opinion not a condemnation.
Are they related to Jocelyn Wildenstein?
I didn't see the programme but the experts were asked only for their opinion of the painting - that is all it should have - an opinion not a condemnation.
Are they related to Jocelyn Wildenstein?
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