Posted by Bill Wilson on October 16, 19102 at 19:57:30:
In Reply to: Duchamp Painting posted by Patricia A. Lange on October 15, 19102 at 10:38:28:
Duchamp by letter asked his sister to sign his name to a work (a ready-made), and odds are that the signature you have is similarly inauthentic, yet sadly not authorised by a letter. Do not expect anyone but a paid professional appraiser to accept the painting for authentication, because anyone who declines to authentic a painting is likely to be sued, quite expensively. I hope that you bought the painting because you love it, for its own sake, not as an investment. It might or not not be the painting mistakenly bought by someone who, when he couldn't get it authenticated, trusted to the theory of the bigger fool. Whoever bought that painting from him---he can be recognized by the expression of resentment on his face---should try to return it to him, or learn to enjoy it. That man who wants compnsation for his deprivations only deprived himself by buying that painting, then sought to communicate his resentment by depriving someone else first of money, then of common-sense. A person who bought a fake Ray Johnson on e-Bay put it up for auction a few months later, a dangerous process. Guess who stopped that auction?