A Gargantuan Goof at the Getty, or the Acquisition of a Glorious Gauguin Gone Wrong.

The Art Newspaper is reporting that a carving of a horned devil bought as an original Gauguin by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles is not genuine. They say that the carving, Head with Horns, which fetched a record price for a Gauguin sculpture, has just been downgraded and relegated to the storeroom. While the… Continue reading A Gargantuan Goof at the Getty, or the Acquisition of a Glorious Gauguin Gone Wrong.

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