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This magnificent Picasso oil in its original frame cam from Venezuela to help finance a family's flight when Chavez came to power. It now hangs in a great stately house and was gifted to an autistic grandchild's trust fund. There is a significant Louise Leris Gallery certificate verso. The trustee is selling it and will allow it to be viewed where it hangs. It is being sold for thousands instead of the millions it would have fetched ten years ago at Sotheby's and Christies because its provenance cannot be proved prior to Venezuela and the great auction houses no longer except "experts" certificates of authenticy from experts such as Claude Picasso and Gerard Basquiat. All such once-accepted experts have stopped certifying paintings because forensics may prove them wrong and leave them open to major legal damages. But art forensics is improving rapidly based or such findings as the precise aging of paints and can. More ar t can be seen at artfinders.or.

This magnificent Picasso oil in its original frame cam from Venezuela to help finance a family's flight when Chavez came to power. It now hangs in a great stately house and was gThis magnificent Picasso oil in its original frame cam from Venezuela to help finance a family's flight when Chavez came to power. It now hangs in a