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Re: looking for 1984 Christies' auction catalog

Posted By: rat
Posted Date: Jan 31, 2011 (10:34 AM)

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Dear grasshopper,

a few US collectors have had their own seals made to apply to their paintings. John Crawford is one. this is not common however.

one way you can think about authenticity (and pricing) of chinese paintings is not whether a given painting "genuine" or "fake" but instead "more" or "less" close to the actual painter's work. this works insofar as we are often dealing with levels of uncertainty, not cut and dried certainty.

there are a handful of major works that publish painters' seals. when the seals turn up at auction, they are purchased. they don't turn up often.

as I understand it, the seals that Shen Fu found in Zhang Daqian's belongings were mostly if not all sophisticated reproductions from extant seal impressions on existing paintings that he then had made into seals that he applied to forgeries of his own making. whether he also applied them to real paintings that came through his hands I don't know.

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