Category: Forgery
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“Dumb Soup Cans”:Warhol and NFT Art Market
By: Liv Keesling I wanted to create this project to understand the scope of NFT Art and how Andy Warhol’s art blurs the lines between the value of art and ownership. In this WordPress, I plan to touch on Andy Warhol as a person and innovation and connection to different digital platforms, including NFTs. Warhol…
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A Crime for all Seasons- How to Forge a Mucha
I am Calamity, and I have devised the perfect crime: forging Alphonse Mucha lithographs and selling them at full auction price. This is a crime for all seasons, especially when the print’s subject matter is Spring, Summer, Winter, and Fall. Alphonse Mucha’s The Seasons series is comprised of four individual lithograph prints, often sold together.…
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Stitch by Stitch: How to Forge a Medieval Tapestry
A unicorn rests in a garden, held captive in a ramshackle wooden corral. The magnificent creature wears an intricately decorated collar, a delicate golden chain keeping it tethered to the spindly pomegranate tree in the center of the corral. A kaleidoscope of flowers surrounds the beast, accentuating its ethereal beauty. Strangely, the unicorn seems at…
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Forging Antiquity
The Crime Portrait Head; Unknown Artist, 300-150 BC, Hellenistic Period, said to be from Alexandria (Egypt), marble, British Museum, 1872,0515.1; https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1872-0515-1 In the following document, I detailed how and why I made the choices I did in order to successfully create a Hellenistic sculpture forgery which was then sold to a private buyer. I drew…
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The Missing is Forged
Forging a painting missing for 35 years Why forge this painting? Combined, the five Edgar Degas sketches stolen, including Leaving the Paddock, were only worth around $100,000. If this worth is split evenly between the five sketches, the Leaving the Paddock would be worth around $20,000. I would argue, though, that because of the infamous…