Earlier this week a brief report from Stockholm’s The Local closed the long-running debate over some Warhol Brillo boxes that found their way into prominent collections as well as the Moderna Museet:
In a final report from the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board in the USA it has been concluded that the works were mass produced in Skåne in southern Sweden in 1990 at the request of the museum’s former head Pontus Hultén. […] The Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board, as well as two auction houses and the Andy Warhol Foundation, declined to comment on the case but have now confirmed once and for all that the Brillo boxes were indeed not the work of the famed pop-artist, who died in 1987.
The Guardian ran a very long re-cap of the Brillo boxes in August with this combative statement from the Authentication Board:Continue Reading