Tag Archives: catalogue raisonne

Posthumous Claims Over American Pop Artist Robert Indiana: Everything You Need To Know So Far

Posted on: July 31, 2019 by Stephanie Drawdy

In 1961, when he was in his thirties, American Pop Artist Robert Indiana stencilled a call for peace from Longfellow’s The Song of Hiawatha into his painting, The Calumet.  Regrettably, as Indiana was passing away last year at his home in Maine, his world was anything but peaceful. Indiana’s legacy and art had become entangled in […]

The Spies-Ernst case: Art experts in France can breathe a sigh of relief

Posted on: January 27, 2016 by Judith Bouchardeau and Mathilde Roellinger

The discovery of the art forgery scandal perpetrated by Wolfang Beltracchi has given rise to a number of legal proceedings. The recent decision of the Court of Appeal of Versailles, involving art expert Werner Spies and a painting attributed to Max Ernst, is among them. The facts are as follows. At the 2004 Paris Biennale […]