[comicart-l] Re: Heritage errors in attribution
- From: Rodrigo Baeza <rodrigobaeza2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: comicartl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 13:31:53 -0300
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
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