Chapter 34: Just Fears
The signature on the painting
“Private collecting by connoisseurs provides for scholarship outside the strictures of officialdom.” Bob’s journal.
Independent study should hold sway over dogmatic policies of a status quo that constricts the lust for knowledge and eventually conceals the truth.
The art world’s just fears—of litigation, of reputation loss, of being wrong—drove experts to condemn rather than confirm.
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