A lawyer writes: auctioneers need to mind the wording of their artist attributions or run risk of selling fakes
Three articles recently published in ATG focused on the sale of a painting and in each case the key issue was authenticity. Here, lawyer Milton Silverman provides advice, including legal precedent, on how auctioneers can avoid disputes relating to authenticity as a result of misattribution.
Each of the pictures had been sold at auction or in a deal brokered by an auction house.
But what…