Artfraud
Went to a lecture last night
It featured on 2 sets of art crooks who specialised in faking art works and their provenance and get them past verifcation experts into auctions
One painter got 200 of paintings out. And when you see some of them they don't look that similar to the originals artists.
The Greenhalgh family from Bolton sold dozens of forgeries, at one point having 5 artworks lodged with different departments of the British museum. And even though one department dismissed one item as a forgery, it didn't tell the other departments. The famous one is the "The Faun" bought by the Art Institute of Chicago for about $125,000.
- An insider, no it's even worse than that the auction industry is awash with works which the knowledgeable know are frauds.
what's going on ? My guess that in any industry there is water flow path of least resistance.. : The auction houses don't make money if they turn down stuff for sale , and there is a whole series of commissions and prestige points for experts who go with that flow. Others keep their voices down for fear of rocking the boat.
To me there seem clear parallels with the way the Climate industry works, with it's cherrypicking "experts" etc. and the way astounding things are accepted. ..eg Peter Wadham's predictions

Oh well i thought it's an interesting point even if no one else does.