VS Gaitonde<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nUnfortunately, the legal remedies for such forgery are few. While there is the Copyright Act to tackle the issue of paintings which are copied, in the case of a totally new art masquerading as an original, it will come under forgery.<\/p>\n
Kamal, like Menon said it would be best if there was a regulatory body comprising art historians, curators and other such experts who can authenticate paintings and where artists can register their works. \u201cBuyers are becoming more aware of this issue and are learning more about the paintings they want to buy. They should also take expert advice and even contact the artist if possible,\u201d he said. Also, it would be in the artist\u2019s best interest if he documents his art works.<\/p>\n
After all, better safe than sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The art market in our country is booming and is worth crores. This has led to works of senior artists being forged and sold as originals, raking in huge profits for unscrupulous dealers and gallery owners By Shobha John As you admire a Manjit Bawa painting, you take in the vibrant colors, the graphic figure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[432],"tags":[1776,1777,1767,1760,1764,1248,1770,1774,1762,1763,1771,1772,1765,1768,1773,1761,1766,1775,1769],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/jamini-01-for-web-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}