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Originally Posted by David Atkatz
Once again, provenance is not a story. Provenance is the verifiable history of an object; key word here being verifiable. An auction catalog, say, from the 1950s, in which an item appears, proves where that item was at that time. It thus could not have been forged, say, by someone who hadn't even been born then.
Again, provenance is not the word-of-mouth story that a seller tries to hand you. True or not, that's just a story.
Understand what provenance is, before you criticise.
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Agreed. By definition provenance is provable history or chain of ownership.