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Art market guide
Artnet
As most art world aficionados now know, the November issue of Vanity Fair features a major article, by Michael Shnayerson, on the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board. The gist of the article is about the committee's all-powerful yet mysterious ways.
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(Or Just Forget About It)
(Or Just Forget About It)
Time magazine
Make It Real (Or Just Forget About It) We're having a big week in the art attribution field.
The art trade is the last unregulated market
For the last few years, the media have trumpeted contemporary art as the hottest new investment. At fairs, auction houses and galleries, an influx of new buyers—many of them from the world of finance—have streamed in.
The Andy Warhol Authentication Board issued a statement last month in response to The Art Newspaper Is front page lead in the October issue (No.140, pp.1,4). We reported allegations made by collectors and dealers that the four-member panel is rejecting genuine works by the artist and refusing to make public the reasons for those decisions. The boardIs statement reaffirms its practices and gives no indiction that any modification of procedure is being discussed. At the centre of the dispute is a series of silk-screen self-portraits produced without the artistIs immediate supervision. In 1964, Warhol loaned acetates of his photographic self-portrait to magazine publisher Richard Ekstract and allowed him to find printers to construct silk screens and print an unspecified number of paintings.
Paul Warhola
Sunday Telegraph magazine
Next month, Paul Warhola, Andy Warhol's brother is selling off his equivalent to the family silver. He is hoping to swell his family's coffers by more than $3.5 million by selling some
Art historians appointed
Andy Warhol’s self-portrait: many of his works defy easy authentication.
© My Andy Warhol 2008