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The discovery that a respected curator produced a set of Andy Warhol Brillo boxes after the artist’s death, passing them off as originals, has created a quandary for dealers, collectors, and scholars—including the experts in charge of authenticating the artist’s work by Eileen Kinsella
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It doesn't matter what you think about Andy Warhol. The following jaw dropping story.. in the Oct. 22 edition of the New York Review of Books, doesn't depend on your opinion. Your jaw will drop anyway.
It doesn't matter what you think about Andy Warhol. The following jaw-dropping story, as reported by Richard Dorment in the Oct. 22 edition of the New York Review of Books, doesn't depend on your opinion. Your jaw will drop anyway.
For myself, I enjoy Warhol because he discussed, in his own way, art as commodity, and by extension everything as commodity. If Marilyn Monroe or Bruce Willis can make millions of dollars essentially portraying some version of themselves in picture after picture, why can't art be valuable if it merely replicates a commodity already on offer in the marketplace? Brillo boxes are for sale; why can't replications of Brillo boxes be for sale? If people buy them, then the great circle of commodification is complete. It's a great joke, but it's also great social criticism.
Warhol silk-screened most of his later work. Silk screening is a reasonably simple process, and anyone can do it once the template is made. If the template is, say, a newspaper photograph of Marilyn Monroe, then making the template is reasonably easy too. High school kids can do it. On the other hand, who said art had to be hard?
At the height of Warhol's fame, he had everybody in the print shop, including the security guard, turning out replicas. He consulted on the colors, and on how off-register the colors should be. After that, he had his assistants do the work. Most famous artists have assistants, and the question of who did what is rarely asked, because the answers might uncover all sorts of surprises that the sentimental art-buying public might find upsetting.
Nevertheless, this silk-screening process presents special problems. After Warhol died, an organization called the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board was set up. Interestingly enough, according to Dorment, the board was made up mostly of people who are, in one way or another, beholden to the board for at least some of their income. Also, it is alleged, members of the board work with certain galleries to ensure that they offer only genuine authenticated Warhol works. This whole thing becomes trickier when you realize that the authentication board works entirely in secret, and never gives reasons for rejecting a given painting.
So we come to the issue of "Red Self Portraits," a series of silk-screened images that are exactly what they sound like. These are reasonably famous in the art world; if you've looked at catalogs of Warhol's work, you've probably seen one or more of them.
The "Red Self Portraits" were made in two batches, one in 1964 and one in 1965. The board decided that the first batch was authentic and the second batch was not, partly because Warhol was not in the room when they were run off. (He had also not been in the room - he called it "art by phone" - when other officially authentic prints had been run off, but the board does not explain its decisions.) That is at least defensible, except for one problem.
One of the new "Red Self Portraits" had been given by Warhol to his longtime business partner, the Zurich art dealer Bruno Bischofberger. The inscription on the canvas read "The Bruno B. Andy Warhol 1969." And yet, despite the fact that the artwork had been signed and dated by the artist, the board declared that the painting was not an authentic Warhol. What? That point in the narrative is where my jaw dropped.
Oh, but there's more. When a catalog of Warhol's work was issued in 1969, Bischofberger's copy of "Red Self Portrait" was chosen as the cover. Warhol, who had a hand in the selection, was so pleased with the way the catalog came out that he signed the dust jacket of a copy of the book and also the "half title" page, which is publisher's slang for the page inside the book that carries only the title without the author's name, the publisher or any of the other boiler-plate information.
And yet, in the face of all this evidence, the board issued the following decree in 2003 with regard to the Bischofberger painting: "It is the opinion of the authentication board that said work is NOT the work of Andy Warhol, but that said work was signed, dedicated and dated by him."
Not only that, the board thoughtfully stamped in big red letters on the back of the frame "DENIED," which made it essentially worthless, not only for sale but also for exhibition. Why did that happen? The board isn't saying, because the board never says.
The complete story of this symphony of pettiness and farce can be found at www.nybooks.com/articles/23153. You won't believe your eyes.
Hugger-mugger in the art world
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/12/DDBM1A3HHA.DTL
AgostinaAgostina Segatori in the Café du Tambourin, 1887Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
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A strikingly-dressed woman is shown seated at a small table, smoking a cigarette and staring into space. The tambourine-shaped tables and bar-stools tell us that she is in the Café du Tambourin on the Boulevard de Clichy. The woman depicted is probably Agostina Segatori, the owner of this café frequented by Van Gogh and his friends. The artist paid for his meals with flower still lifes, which were then hung on the walls. It was here that Van Gogh’s paintings were seen by the public for the first time.
Vincent may have had an affair with ‘La Segatori’, an Italian by birth, although this is by no means certain. Some of the letters seem to indicate that they were more than just friends.
Parisian nightlife and scenes of people in restaurants, bars and nightclubs were popular subjects with Impressionist artists like Auguste Renoir and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
The latter painted a portrait of Van Gogh with a glass of absinthe - probably also in the Café du Tambourin. He also made a painting of a woman at a café table which Van Gogh probably saw before starting his picture of ‘La Segatori’ Both works are executed in a loose, impressionistic manner, and the figure has been placed on the canvas in a similar position.
Agostina Segatori’s portrait was painted over another work. In the x-ray we can clearly see a large-scale portrait of a woman underneath.
Well,... what do you know about this? Probably not a damn thing,... but what the hell,... here goes anyway. This is the portrait below that I bought on eBay in 1998 of this 19th century portrait of a woman, oil on canvas,... and I'm sure they will say it could not possibly be of Agostina Segatory, painted by Vincent. I would even go as far as to say even this oil on wood paneling of the artist and Agostina under the mulberry trees or quite possibly of a couple of young majestic elephant-skinned beech trees, painted in the fall, on the out skirts of Paris. This could have been painted on one of their own beach skinny dipping excursions.
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Vincent was one who had his heart broken many times the old fassion way, and afterwards retreating back into his world of so-called madness in silence and despair. Vincent's feeling's were almost as if he were completely useless in this world and wondered if the roads he traveled weren't always going as if they were up hill. The artist that Vincent was, and how driven he had become,.. I'd suppose took it toll on about everything he considered important in his life. I'm talking mostly about facts I believe he knew as he worked 7 or 8 years for his uncle Cent at the Goupel Cie Galleries. Being mixed with incompliancy and what he considered incompetence of his art colleauges and supposed MFA expertise, while only receiving a minimal support from his art dealing brother later on in his career, finally drove him to this supposed attempted suicide. I feel it was only supposed to bring the attention of the MFA world. Many people in this MFA world today would like to own one of his paintings, or at least an etching or drawing of his,... while this assumed craziness began only ten or so years after his death. Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch postimpressionist painter. Vincent was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot Zunbert village, North Brabant area in the Netherlands. He always felt that there was a reason he was borne into this world again, after the previous year,... or should I even suggest years. Most know or have heard that his mother and father had lost their first borne on the exact same day, March 30th the previous year, and after his birth, they had given him the very same name. Yes,.. it is correct that he wouldn't have known that his painting of the good Dr Gachet would sell for 82.5 million in 1990, one hundred years after his death, but I would surmise he knew what it was worth at that time and knew it would become more valuable as time went on. Vincent Van Gogh was considered to have a strong relation with his brother Theo throughout their lives for he often sent letter to Theo, almost a thousand letters to come close. In these letters of theirs, the van Gogh brothers discussed many things about their feelings, family happenings, and mostly about their love of the arts and what alive and dead artists meant to the two of them. I myself realize that these canvases and works of art I have personally collected of his will be just as hard to sell as they were when he was alive and had created them. But, later on people will see that there's fresh air and good humour in them as well, just as he had said. One of his hopes about his work was that his works would be known by all people in all the lands. Vincent van Gogh paintings were darker in colors before he went to Paris,... such as in Rembrandts. They may have been painted to suggest a melancholy atmosphere. This style also became famous, and I would assume one hell of an expensive painting in the world of van Gogh, called the “Potatoes Eaters” Netherlands, 1885, in which he used these dark color. He painted the family he had used as models and which were good friends of his as they surrounded a table while eating. A lamp, two people taking potatoes off the a plate, one person lifting a cup, one person pouring coffee, and the back of their daughter possibly standing who could be considered possibly pregnant, as just it seems only her back appears. In 1886 when going back to Paris to live with Theo, Vincent's art dealing brother, Vincent became more familiar with artist such as; Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, Degas, Signac and Seurat. He already knew many of these impressionist and their works of art from when working there at the Goupel Cie Gallery before, and now was becoming interested in using brighter color himself in his own pallet. In van Gogh's letter to Paul Gauguin, an artist who was van Gogh's colleague later on at Arles, Vincent said, "I wanted all these different colors to express a totally restful feeling." The impressionist artists were using a bright palette, and Van Gogh began to use more vibrant color while lightening his pallet also and started to paint street scenes and city views along with models,... that is when he had the money to pay them. In one of the instances he had to weigh out the advantages, give it to his favorite brunette, or give to this man with a very powerful face who looked to be very dangerous who abliged to sit for him. His famous work The Moulin de la Galette, 1886 and Restaurant de la Sirène at Asnières, 1887 shows these signs of a lighter pallet.
Van Gogh continued his painting using combinations of many colors. His famous work including; Portrait of Doctor Gachet, Still Life with Beer Mug and Fruit, Vase with Poppies, Cornflowers, Peonies and Chrysanthemums, sunflowers (188
THE CROCUS FLOWERS: VINCENT VAN GOGH’S PAINTING “The Crocus Flowers” that considered as Van Gogh’s work is staying in Indonesia, belong to Mr. Rudy Mulyono. The painting was apparently acquired many years ago by his father. Initially, one would wonder how a valuable painting by a major Dutch artist, such as Vincent Van Gogh, would be in Indonesia. The provenance on the painting indicates that it initially came from Holland with a Dutch immigrant when Indonesia was a Dutch colony. As Indonesia was a Dutch colony, then this relationship would be indicative or natural for some of the painting from Holland to make their way to Indonesia. As a result, there is the distinct possibility, that this is one such painting. To make sure about the painting, the buyers are allowed to check this painting and invite some curators / art experts. |
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, The yellow house (1888, Vincent’s house), Sower at sunset (188
Doing study into Vincent Van Gogh, it would indicated that after his death there were hundreds of paintings stashed away in various locations. Surely, his family undertook to obtain. Consequently, it would stand to reason that some of paintings could have been sold, or given away as gifts. There is a good possibility that there still could be a number of yet undiscovered paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. 
