Authenticity and Connoisseurship
Authenticity and Connoisseurship
Thursday 17 May 2018
Authenticity and Connoisseurship
Authenticity and Connoisseurship
Thursday 17 May 2018
With the help of Dr Luke Uglow, Lecturer in Art History, University of Manchester & Gillian Forrester, Senior Curator, Historic Fine Art, become acquainted with the authenticity of a work of art attributed to Gauguin, purchased by the Whitworth in 1926 for the collection, which was attributed as a fake by Douglas Cooper in 1980.
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), the Post-Impressionist artist, spent important formative years in Brittany in the late 1880s, and later worked in Tahiti before dying in the Pacific. However, the various opinions that have been expressed concerning the Gallery's 'Gauguin' from his Brittany period, here displayed, provide a very interesting case history.
The questions that we have to ask ourselves are “what do we think about the authenticity of the work?” and "how does the differing opinion about it affect our view of it as a work of art?” or should we view the work as a clever forgery, manufactured with the deliberate intention of deceiving the viewer?
Further Details:
Cost per person: £10.00
Booking has now closed for this event.
Cost: £10 pp
Time: 2.00pm Venue: Study Centre, the Whitworth
Members only
With the help of Dr Luke Uglow, Lecturer in Art History, University of Manchester & Gillian Forrester, Senior Curator, Historic Fine Art, become acquainted with the authenticity of a work of art attributed to Gauguin, purchased by the Whitworth in 1926 for the collection, which was attributed as a fake by Douglas Cooper in 1980.
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), the Post-Impressionist artist, spent important formative years in Brittany in the late 1880s, and later worked in Tahiti before dying in the Pacific. However, the various opinions that have been expressed concerning the Gallery's 'Gauguin' from his Brittany period, here displayed, provide a very interesting case history.
The questions that we have to ask ourselves are “what do we think about the authenticity of the work?” and "how does the differing opinion about it affect our view of it as a work of art?” or should we view the work as a clever forgery, manufactured with the deliberate intention of deceiving the viewer?
Further Details:
Cost per person: £10.00
Booking has now closed for this event.
Cost: £10 pp
Time: 2.00pm Venue: Study Centre, the Whitworth
Members only
EVENT DATE
MAY 17, 2018
COST
£10.00 per person
POSTAL BOOKINGS
Booking Closed
NUMBER OF PLACES
Max. places: 20
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