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That’s when former Fogg Director Seymour Slive bought it for Harvard, Jordan said. “He comes across this painting, and he says it says Rembrandt on the bottom. And he says it’s not a Rembrandt price and others must have come to a conclusion that this is not a real Rembrandt...
Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum may have a forgery on display, according to a new book by Stephen C. Jordan...
...Slive was intrigued enough to bring it to the Fogg for $35,000. Jordan said Slive was well aware of its questionable history, but decided to call E. A. Silberman Galleries regardless to see if any records remained from the original transaction. Silberman Galleries, according to Jordan, said all their records had been sent to Europe and lost...
...There are modern woodcuts and prints that are deliberately altered after impression. The moment of the act of printing might have passed, just as the era of the print is fading, but therein lies the value of the museum, especially one of resource and direction as didactic as the Fogg...
...Prints: System, Style and Subject” will be displayed in the Fogg Museum’s Strauss Gallery until January 30th...