Topic
Art Authentication
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ContractsProf Blog
About that Chagall Most Recently Appraised at $100,000 . . .
As The New York Times reports here, Stephanie Clegg paid $90,000 for a watercolor that she bought at Sotheby's in 1994. More recently, in 2008, the painting was appraised at $100,000. It…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Is the Art in an Estate Authentic?
The past few years have seen a proliferation of wealthy patrons seeking out investment art, and parallel with that demand is the increase in litigation over authenticity of the art.…
Technology and AI
Blockchain Certification Arrives In The Worldwide Art Auction Market
In recent art world news, Verisart has launched the “P8Pass,” developed in partnership with online auction house Paddle8, to offer blockchain certification and authentication services to the worldwide art marketplace. …
Business and Commercial
Authenticating The $450.3 Million Leonardo da Vinci Masterpiece With Science
Some in the art world may not know that the 500-year old masterpiece painting Salvator Mundi (“Savior of the World”) by Leonardo da Vinci that recently sold for nearly half…
Other
Sotheby’s London Sells Portrait of An Old Women As Authentic Rubens and Fetches 20 Times the Original Hammer
In March 2016, a US auction gallery sold an Old Master oil painting (a sketch of an old woman) for $27,000. The sale price was nearly double the high…
Business and Commercial
Richard Polsky Art Authentication Offers New “Preliminary Opinion Service”
Richard Polsky writes: As the owner of Richard Polsky Art Authentication, I’ve always believed that authenticity is the bedrock of any art transaction, which seems to have been proven out…
HHR Art Law
Proposed Amendments to Protect New York Art Authenticators Pending While Lawsuits Regarding Authentication Disputes Persist
By Lena Saltos
The lawsuit1 recently filed by the Mayor Gallery against the authors and sponsors of the Agnes Martin catalogue raisonné illustrates the ongoing legal risks faced by scholars and other agents who…
Art Law Blog
Update: I Swear It’s Not Mine – Artist Sued for Denying He Created Art Piece
Yesterday, August 23, 2016, U.S. District Judge Gary Feinerman reached a verdict in the authentication case against Peter Doig. He stated that Doig “could not have been the author of…
Intellectual Property
Doig Trial Nears Closure
Further to our post below regarding the trial over the authenticity of a painting alleged to have been made by the Scottish painter Peter Doig, some interesting notes regarding the…
Art Law Blog
I Swear It’s Not Mine – Artist Sued for Denying He Created Art Piece
Artist Peter Doig, whose pieces regularly sell for $10 million, is currently entangled in a rare and rather odd lawsuit, which involves a work Doig denies he created. While disputes…