Chrysler Book Club: Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

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Sunday September 11

3:00 PM  –  4:00 PM

 

Can you tell if a Picasso is really a Picasso? What's real and what's fake? Join Liz Weir, the Chrysler's Dickson Librarian, for a discussion about provenance. Discover how one man twisted it to his advantage to create the biggest art scam in modern art history and find out how the Chrysler's curators use references in the Jean Outland Chrysler Library to confirm the provenance of works in the Museum's collection.

Free
Registration is required. Group will meet in the Jean Outland Chrysler Reading Room.

 

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