STUDY DAY 2012 | ON ATTRIBUTION with Robyn Sloggett

The process of authentication is one that aligns verifiable evidence with a particular hypothesis within a context that includes ambition, reputation, financial loss (or gain), market place position and legal implications. This lecture examines both the context and implications of attributing artwork, and the challenges involved in the process of attribution.

Robyn Sloggett is Director of the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation (CCMC) at the University of Melbourne, which delivers education and research programmes and one of Australia’s largest commercial conservation programmes. She has qualifications in Art History, Philosophy and Materials Conservation, and has published extensively on conservation, attribution and authentication.

This lecture was presented as part of STUDY DAY 2012 | THE DELICATE ART OF DECEPTION | revealing fakes and forgeries held on Saturday 13 October 2012, 10.00am – 4.30pm

in the style of Robert Motherwell (1915–1991), Elegy to the Spanish Republic series, reputed to have been created in 1953