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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;blooey, post: 1236932, member: 12007&quot;]I have no problem with the reline but the painting does look a bit skinned, <i>maybe</i> you should not have removed the varnish as there could have been glaze components in the top coats?</p><p>Nevertheless, I wish you luck with your quest, it seems you have already gone a fair way down into the rabbit hole, so probably there&#039;s no stopping now ...however, in my experience, it is damn nigh impossible to get past the gatekeepers and have a work such as this admitted into the <i>catalogue raisonné</i>, even if it were the real thing. As you have already discovered, the big auction houses won&#039;t touch it with a bargepole if you try and sell it as a big name.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a friend, who, for the last 20 years has tried desperately to get a painting authenticated ...people tend to agree it could be real, given the proof etc but he cannot get &quot;official&quot; say-so&#039;s/nods of approval from the establishment.</p><p>In his case, it is an even more bitter pill to swallow because the painting in question&nbsp; was used as a frontispiece in a 1905 book about the work of the artist!</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately though, no one will cop to it. They are all afraid of losing their jobs/being discredited.</p><p><br /></p><p>Welcome to the reality of the art world!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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