While we're on the subject, there is a Wonder Woman splash in the current
Heritage Weekly auction which is Pencilled by Tom Grummett & inked by Steve
Montano. The credits are clearly on the splash page. Heritage has instead
credited the art to George Pérez & Tom Grummett. How did that happen, you
ask? Well, George Pérez did WRITE the story, for which he is also clearly
credited in the credits box on the page, so I guess that's "close enough"
for them to turn the Pérez writing credit into a penciller credit!
-Rubén DaCollector
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 11:57 AM massa frederic <badmarru@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi everyone
It's a trend I see more and more at auction houses indeed, Heritage
included.
Last year, a page was sold attributed to Kerry Gammill who penciled the
first story of the book whereas that page came from the second story of
said book and was drawn by Randall. The two artists are difficult to
mistake for the other.
Luckily it popped on CAF and I alerted the buyer who was able to set
things right with Heritage.
It seems that the "do your research" axiom is true not only for buyers but
sellers as well 😉
Best, Fred
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on behalf of Bob Kopman <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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*To:* comicartl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <comicartl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Subject:* [comicart-l] Re: Heritage errors in attribution
Archie artist attribution is a topic that interest me.
I've notified Heritage several times in the past when I was sure that
their description was in error. They've usually corrected it.
In general, if they don't know, I'd prefer that Heritage list a piece as
artist unknown rather than attributing to an artist.
I've also been contributing to GCD data for Archie art, when I'm sure
about the artist.
Best,
Bob
On Tuesday, January 5, 2021, 11:32:22 a.m. EST, Rodrigo Baeza <
rodrigobaeza2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 12:37 PM Bill Morrison <
bill.littlegreenman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in auctions of Archie art at Heritage.
Several lots have listed "Dan DeCarlo (Attributed)” as the artist when the
art is clearly by another artist and shows no sign of Dan even touching it.
I’ve emailed Heritage about these errors but to no avail. I’m wondering if
they have someone in-house who does the attributions of art, or are they
just taking the word of the person who’s putting the art up for auction?
As George H. says, they rely a lot on GCD data. So when that data is
incomplete or incorrect, they end up with incorrect auction listings. I've
noticed, however, that they put more effort on accurately identifying pages
(artist, date, original publication) in their bigger, Signature auctions.
(The weekly Sunday/Monday auctions on the other hand seem to be assembled
more quickly, therefore having a larger percentage of errors.)
I send them corrections regularly: my latest was a few weeks ago, when I
informed them that what they'd listed as a "1950s Jungle Jim" page by
"Unknown" was actually a Blackhawk page by Reed Crandall (this apparently
happened because the consignor didn't know much about the art he was
selling). They do show a bit more resistance when I inform them of fakes or
forgeries (anyone remember those double-sided pieces of art from a couple
of years ago that were offered as "Keeping Up with the Joneses" dailies,
but were in fact amateur tracings of Barney Google strips?), but most of
the time they do process the corrections I send.
Rodrigo
