Chapter 33: Steamy Chat with Christie's
Detail: brushwork in the rescue boat
“When a letter from your girlfriend is dropped through the door, you don’t have to open it and read the name to know who it’s from.” Lawrence Gowing’s theory of the magic eye.
But Friedlander had countered: coldly analytical scholars make fewer mistakes. Martin was forced to claim the superiority of his own connoisseurship.
Without any concrete argument against the painting, he suggested his eye should be good enough. But was it?
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