Letter: Testing for inauthenticity

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: June 24, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Sir: Bryan Appleyard, by referring to recent criticism about misattributions in various museums ("Beware of mad art disease", 20 June) adopts a nonchalant, laid-back attitude towards what he dismissively calls the "rash of stories of new art errors".

However, by not taking seriously into account attempts at establishing the truth about a painting like Rubens' Samson and Delilah and by rubbishing as mad cow hysteria requests to apply a dendrochronology test, he forgets: a) that Rubens' Samson and Delilah has cost the taxpayer a colossal amount of money (pounds 2.5m in 1980); b) that even a ...

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