The Art Newspaper has a piece on the increased focus on forensic science employed by auction houses, and its potential to improve authentication for works on sale.  “There is a hole that hopefully someone will fill, but it takes entrepreneurial nerve to leave a museum job and do this… it’s not for the faint of heart,†says John Cahill, a lawyer who represented two plaintiffs in suits against the Knoedler gallery.
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