Dear forum members, I would appreciate the advice. While not declare the names and appearances, because I want to first understand whether in principle, to do something.
There is a picture. The owner attributed its оччень popular in Russia market, the 19 th century artist, who drew a lot of bruising huts and birch trees, and it actively forged and counterfeited.
Did you give - through the two gallery owners - to evaluate the two leading experts. One firm said that the forgery. Another, which clearly can not say, but a lot of doubt and a positive sign under examination does not deliver.
This would be possible and finish, but then go BUT:
- One of the experts' second plan (but not the "third", namely, quite sane, as I understand, a man who works in the Tretyakov Gallery) believe that the original;
- A big problem: there are no artist's signature, it vykovyrena. According to the owner, at 19, when the fear of confiscation. If this is too fake, logical, perhaps, to forge a signature than to pick;
- Expert, who spoke about the forgery, suggested that a fake 30-ies. However, the picture in the family of 18, when it left "on deposit" to go to Europe together people with different junk. This statement of the owner. I told her I can not believe for many reasons (age 78 years, the origin, its professional, ethical and cultural status, as defined in the process of long acquaintance, etc. As an illustration: As a direct descendant of PA Viazemsky it has a number of attribution and confirmed by examination of handwritten documents PA, but did not want to sell them for any money, although it is in a dire situation.)
- About the painting itself. I feel ignorant, like the work of the implied author still more than
now this cartoon, though it is not a masterpiece. Display photos yet would not like not understanding whether it has meaning. There was somewhere barbaric topic about checking through tykanya needle - jabbed (that's such a bastard I am: shy
, no traces. That is, probably more than a hundred years, and it also does not match the version of 30-ies.
Questions:
1. if the leading experts A and B have spoken, whether the word change in the force of circumstances?
2. Does it make sense to apply to other experts (one directly said that if a verdict, he and his brother for the examination will not be), and if so, to what exactly?
3. Can some technical espertiza give enough reliable result, and what it will cost?
As the topic, I think, takskat delicate, you can write and lichku. In lichku can all specify. On the other hand, if the experts say that further discussion is meaningful expose the photo in the subject.
PS Please do not perceive the mention of the plight of the owner in the genre of the recruiting song of beggars in the train. Rather, it is requested to actively take to clarify the issue. Because, if a question of forgery, you need to stop illusions and sell this thing as a fake for the price. But a clear understanding yet.