I'm inviting you all to join in by looking, reading, and possibly seeing what caused this little rant of mine, one who has been called the rabble rousing fool of MFA expertise and also of the internet. That program was the number one dog that just about caused me to kick in the screen of my large HD television.  This really damn near happened the other night as I was watching a program on Channel 4, a 2011 BBC television series which examines the provenance of notable artworks.

 I think that these acting professionals who are presented in these series of supposed fine art episodes of found masters works of art are also being a little two faced about art expertise and the way art experts use their power to do as they please.  They give a good impression of being all for these individual who are the owners of these works of art at the time. These action that they have taken to fine out provenance I believe helps with the authenticity of the work of art. I believe a lot this type of investigating put on this program is to show people how foolish it could be for themselves to try and sell their own collected works they have in their own collections if they had no proof of provenance or sale recites from the family where it was purchased from.  These people do their investigations as responsible reporters as historians but did the do it as the professional that they are in their fields of expertise in the right way. I suppose this was all edited right on down for the this ending and final climatic surprise ending showing the elite rich possibly get richer and the poor more that likely how they will remain poor and actually get poorer.

 The seller not being able to receive the auction sale proceeds after the commissions of the sale by Sotheby's,  they the owners were left pretty much high and dry.  From what I see they more than likely will run themselves out of money for the attorney fees.  The real winners will be the attorneys for the lack of funds to cover their fees from the estimated worth of the auctioning of the painting. This will leave them little or no hope that thing are going get better for them, especially after spending money she said she couldn't afford while coming to the states to watch the auction.   Then having to go back home empty handed and even without their work of art they brought over to be sold. This I believe is all totally bullshit, and also lies I believe this attorney has dreamed up and I would guess myself with the help of this MFA so-called expert of Sotheby's who had given all this information to. I feel there is and was a little insider information given to that attorney and more than likely how to handle question and what to present as evidence to enable them to possibly get it returned to them after themselves so clumsily letting this painting slip out of their grasp. 

 I personally can't help myself from having these little rants when I see shit like this really going down.  Can you believe this was shown happening right in front of art lovers eyes, all over the world for millions of people out there to watch a peace of art work that was in these peoples possession,... get tied up at Sotheby's auction house held in litigation. Makes people want to take works that they have themselves in to them and sell.  if they tried this with their own works, it could very well turn into this very same situation and synopsis. Who knows for sure? in summing it up say as to in a nutshell, the way I see it, all these elite MFA people are trying their damnedest to save the MFA world.  This 8 to 10 billion dollar a year business has come very close to collapsing with all these copies being sold in the past. About (50%) the French police say that's out there in the high dollar collections, in the elite art investors possessions, museums, and so forth. The market I believe is needing much more time to continue with the sale of these works to line their off shore bank accounts with more cash for the rainy days ahead for the MFA market.

These two stars of this show go way out of their way it seems to show people how the MFA establishments really works, people claiming to be MFA experts, and how difficult and costly it may be for any one trying to sell something or have it looked at that they own. At the same time they are trying to convince the art public at large that they are for the simple folk who has the art work in the first place.  These works of art are shown to be in their possession and belonging to them.  How The art work happened to get there and after saying this questioning them how they came to be being the owner. Most seem to believe that possession is supposed to represent about nine-tenths of the law, that is if it can't be proven to be stolen.  I say this is all a bunch of bullshit, a big ass farce! Did I say A FART IN THE WIND? No, I said farce. Just imagine seeing what that Attorney had come up with for proof.  A bunch of computerized copied paper of supposed letters, written on legal size paper size apparently supposedly written by and coming from word from his family showing as proof of owner ship.  It was almost same word the reporter and the Historians used in this film of their own findings.  It sounded as if written by someone listening to what they had earlier said in their investigation and findings of the provenance.  Just before the last hour and before the painting being pulled from the auction the member of this family showed up for an interview and just happened to be this attorney himself.

It has been two years now while the owner has been waiting to get her property back and for this to be resolved.  I'd personally say that thieving ass attorney deserves a print of it,.... when hell freezes over.  He'd get his just reward under the ice.  You heard the joke about what do you have when there is 5000 attorney at the bottom of the ocean, haven't you? Answer is "it's a good start".

Cheers!
vanrijngo