LONDON — The 6,000 or so extant pages of text and drawings attributed to Leonardo da Vinci are thought to represent only about one-fifth of his output.
This exhibition of about 90 works on paper, all promised gifts to the Morgan, includes just four drawings attributed to that master.
Towering over them all, and worth a visit in their own right, are the 14th-century drawings "attributed to" Muhammad of the Black Pen (see above).
During his lifetime Lugt, widely known as Frits Lugt, owned about 30 drawings attributed to Rembrandt as well as a complete set of his etchings.
Costco stopped selling fine art in 2006 after Picasso's daughter Maya Widmaier-Picasso questioned the authenticity of a few drawings attributed to her father that the store was selling.
In January the Courtauld Institute of Art in London cited "the possibility of legal action" when it canceled a forum discussing a controversial set of some 600 drawings attributed to Francis Bacon.
He had spent years working on a controversial Modigliani catalogue raisonné but scrapped part of it after receiving "death threats," he said, for suggesting that some drawings attributed to Modigliani were fakes.
(Johnson) ★ Morgan Library & Museum Rembrandtdt's World: Dutch Drawings From the Clement C. Moore Collection' (through April 29) You won't see much of Rembrandt in this exhibition, which includes just four drawings attributed to that master.
