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By: How to Get Six Pack Fast

How to Get Six Pack Fast — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:21:17 +0000

I noticed that this is not the first time at all that you mention this topic. Why have you chosen it again?

By: Villainousness

Villainousness — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:50:28 +0000

Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation Anyway … nice blog to visit.

cheers, Villainousness!!

By: dzseff

dzseff — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:39:53 +0000

Exactly, C.Shaw. Normally a catalogue raisonne would lay the matter to rest, and would, legally speaking, be the final authority. But Landau has published an awfully authoritative monograph on Pollock, and in truth few libraries stock the catalogue raisonne, and many more, like the one I use in Budapest, will have Landau’s book. And so, in reality, her version of the oeuvre is going to reach a lot more people. About paintings remaining in purgatory…yes, I think they will. Pollocks can only achieve their current Super Prices if they are absolutely unquestioned. What will most likely happen to these paintings is that the market will act with trepidation and the works will sell at dramatically lower value to speculators willing to gamble that their bargain purchase is hopefully not worthless, and possibly worth a lot more.

By: c. shaw

c. shaw — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:23:57 +0000

Clearly art authentication is in a state of flux, especially with the increasing use of scientific analysis. Traditionally, the catalogue raisonne authors, in this case, Thaw and O’Connor, would have final word on the authenticity of a painter’s works. Since they are rejecting the Matter paintings and scientific analysis concurs, doesn’t this lay the matter to rest, at least legally?
Or, given that Landau has put her own expertise on the line, combined with the Pollack/Matter show and accompanying book published by Abrams (albeit with disclaimers) carry enough weight to give these paintings viability?
Some writers assert that the Pollack/Matters show gives credence to the authenticity of the paintings. For instance, Greg Cook, of the The Phoenix notes that “ in the chronology at the back of the catalogue, meanwhile, the “Pollocks” have been magically authenticated: “1958: Herbert wraps Jackson’s experimental works made at Tudor City and packs them away at [his space at] MacDougal Alley” (http://thephoenix.com/Article.aspx?id=46637&page=1)
In the fray (the realm of “concentration,” – to borrow from your Rembrandt project paper), when scientific analysis undercuts the connoisseurship of an art historian, as in this situation, do the paintings remain forever in art-market purgatory?

By: THE DECIDER now gets to even decide Provenance « Art Miser

THE DECIDER now gets to even decide Provenance « Art Miser — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:14:06 +0000

[...] would usually have final word on the authenticity of a painter’s works. Witness the current Pollack locker painting dispute. And Schoenberg is rightly anticipating Weidinger’s opinion on provenance will equally hold [...]