What is a certificate of authenticity and why should you consider asking for one when you purchase an artwork? To find out, join our founder and art lawyer, Alana Kushnir for this special Guest Club masterclass with a legal twist.
Alana will take you on a journey from the late 1960s to the present day, exploring iconic works by American conceptual artists Sol Le Witt and Dan Flavin, as well as some of the key court cases surrounding the authenticity of artworks by Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat. The masterclass will also cover the problematic uses of certificates of authenticity in the context of sales of Indigenous Australian art, and the technological advancements shaping the future of this intriguing document.
Untitled (to the "innovator" of Wheeling Peachblow) 1966-68, daylight, yellow, and pink florescent light, 8 ft. square across a corner, © Stephen Flavin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.