The Art of Forgery

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1. MeeraxJun 2020
   I recently finished reading "The Art of Forgery" by Noah Charney and that is the exact same feeling I had. Great book, very interesting, but it will leave you curious and perhaps a little doubtful about all art that you look at afterwards. Things like this are so wild and unlikely (to me at least) that when something like it comes up with zero provenance it just raises a whole lot of questions.
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2. dguestMay 2023
   This particular fact just sounds like good logistical sense. If I'm going to sign 2000 prints I might as well do it in one batch.

   Also might as well sign all them together, before mass production, rather than waiting for them to be differentiated into different prints: that way they are printed on demand from a central source rather than signed on demand from many different sources.

   I suspect it might be misleading to say he signed them "before he knew what would be printed on them". They were authorized with a specific set of prints (his work), it wasn't like they could just draw anything and sell it.

   Not to say he wasn't greedy. I would say the more direct point was

   > "(Dalí) was completely money obsessed, to the point of a mania,” said Noah Charney, an art historian and author of The Art of Forgery.

   but I'm not really sure being good at logistics makes you greedy.

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