What about all the people who have real pieces purchased at shows and record stores? Are the Johnstons' suggesting everything, that does not have a COA from them, is fake? I find this to be a double edged sword for everyone who has a piece of art from Dan. You can not catagorically call into question every piece that does not have a COA. There has to be 100's if not 1000's of pieces that fall under that classification.
I have been collecting art for some time and have seen this coming with Dans' art for a while.
This does two things.
It increases the value of all pieces that come from the Johnstons' and decreases the value of everything else on the market. (Except for those pieces that come from
www.museumoflove.com and
www.worriedshoes.com)
What would be fair is if the Johnstons' were to offer an authentication program for any art that is out there that people would want to submit for authentication. What foundations such as the Chagall Authentication society does is, if they find a piece to be fake, they destroy it. Others simply stamp the back with "void" and return it to the owner.
IMO, this is what the Johnstons' should offer if they are going to suggest what they have.
While the piece they showed may or may not be fake, you know there are a lot of real pieces out there with no COA.
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and Daniel Johnston 
