The law vs scholarship

"The news that a leading scholar felt constrained by legal advice from giving a full opinion on a group of drawings attributed to Francis Bacon highlights a growing fear among experts that they might be sued for giving their opinion.
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'Many experts are reluctant to give their opinion in public because of the threat of legal action, which is in fact quite remote,' says Karen Sanig, the head of art law at Mishcon de Reya, London. 'This perception is having a freezing effect on scholarship. It has [become] increasingly obvious as a problem over the past six months, partly due to the coverage of authentication issues in the press.' With the prices of 20th-century art rising so strongly over the past decade, it is little surprise that these disputes have become so heated."  [Read Full Article]

Published by:  The Art Newspaper
On:  12/08/11
Website:  http://www.theartnewspaper.com

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