Evidently, this spring Cowan's will be auctioning off that watercolor portrait of Poe that was recently unveiled to the world. I will be--to paraphrase P. G. Wodehouse--watching this painting's future career with great interest. I am curious to discover--and, honestly, I'm not being snide, I genuinely want to know--how they can definitively authenticate a painting that has no known history before 1978. And that looks like it was whipped up by a nine-year-old using a paint-by-numbers kit.OK, there I was being snide.
See you next week, my friends, when I am planning a post that I assure you will be snide beyond all previous imagining. Hope you like it.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment