THE AFTERLIFE OF SCULPTURES: POSTHUMOUS CASTS IN SCHOLARSHIP, THE MARKET, AND THE LAW
May 1 and 2, 2018
A two-day conference on issues surrounding posthumous casts of sculptures held at the Dedalus Foundation, New York. Posthumous casts made from an artist’s lifetime models represent a complex issue for art historians, museums, art foundations, auction houses, curators, collectors, conservators, art lawyers and the art market. The question of how to evaluate and write about these casts is also of vital importance for those working on catalogues raisonnés. The intent of this conference is to share different concerns and viewpoints as well as to come up with new ideas about how to exhibit, label and designate posthumous casts within an artist’s oeuvre.
Welcome and Introduction
May 1, 2018
Welcome by Katy Rogers, President of the Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association
Introduction by Sharon Hecker, Independent
Day 1, Session 1
The Artist's Legacy: Enhanced or Distorted?
Moderated by Shaina Larrivee (Director, The Hedda Sterne Foundation)
[Not recorded] Rosalind McKever (Harry M. Weinrebe Curatorial Fellow, National Gallery, London), “Unique Forms & Different Versions: Cataloguing Boccioni’s Sculptures”
Derek Pullen (Director, SculpCons Ltd.), “Seeking Definition: Picasso’s Head of Fernande in Plaster and Bronze”
Joan Pachner (Author, Tony Smith Catalogue Raisonné), “And When I Die: Tony Smith’s Posthumous Sculpture”
Day 1, Session 2
Positive/Negative Effects of Access and Control, Moral Rights
Moderated by Susan Cooke (Associate Director, Estate of David Smith)
Hannah Kinney (Lecturer, Christ Church, Oxford), “Ownership, Access, and the Afterlife of Giambologna Models”
Ursel Berger (Independent), “Lifetime or Posthumous – the Maillol Case”
Jason McCoy (President, Jason McCoy Gallery and Kiesler Estate), “Completing Bucephalus Posthumously – The Last and Most Ambitious Sculpture by Frederick Kiesler (1890-1965)”
Day 1, Session 3
Affective Responses and/vs. Historical Knowledge
Moderated by Sharon Hecker (Independent)
Liz Glynn (Artist), "The Myth of Singularity: Recovering Auguste Rodin through Performative Processes"
Lisa Rafanelli (Professor, Manhattanville College), “The Afterlife of Michelangelo’s Vatican Pietà”
Mira T. Sundara Rajan (Independent), “The Doctrine of Moral Rights: Obstacle or Conduit to Authenticity?”
Day 2, Session 1
Categorizing, Defining, Labeling, Viewing: Between Scholarship, the Art Market, and the Law
May 2, 2018
Moderated by Mette Carlsen (Independent)
Jocelyn Poulton and Philip Hewat-Jaboor (Vetting Coordinator and Chair of the Fair, Masterpiece London Art Fair), “Informing the Public: It’s all in the Label”
[Not Recorded] Laura Bartolomé Roviras (Curator, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí), “Defining Standards: the Previous and Necessary Effort Before Undertaking a Catalogue Raisonné”
DAY 2, SESSION 2
Sculptors, Heirs, Dealers, Lawyers, Scholars (Part I)
Moderated by Elizabeth Gorayeb (Executive Director, The Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.)
Judith Bouchardeau (Avocat Associé, Cabinet Borghese Associés), “French Legal Issues Surrounding the Posthumous Casting of Camille Claudel’s La Vague”
[Not Recorded] Alexandra Parigoris (Visiting Research Fellow, University of Leeds), “The Death of the Sculptor and the Birth of the Dealer: How Brancusi’s molds enabled the production of posthumous Brancusi bronzes”
Alexandra Keiser (Research Curator, The Archipenko Foundation), “Cataloguing Archipenko’s Bronzes”
DAY 2, SESSION 3
Sculptors, Heirs, Dealers, Lawyers, Scholars (Part II)
Moderated by Rosalind McKever (Harry M. Weinrebe Curatorial Fellow, National Gallery, London)
Giuseppe Calabi (Senior Partner, CBM and Partners), “Posthumous Casts: Too Good to Be True? A Comparative Law Analysis (Italy and France)”
Paula Hornbostel (Director, Lachaise Foundation), “50 Shades of Bronze: A Case Study of Posthumous Bronze Casts by Gaston Lachaise and a Comparison of These Casts with Their Lifetime Counterparts”
Jonathan Vernon (Ph.D. Candidate, The Courtauld Institute of Art), “Masters of the Torch: American Modernist Narratives and the Posthumous Casts of Julio González”
Day 2, Session, 4
Back to the Future
Moderated by Peter Karol (Associate Professor of Law, New England Law)
Henry J. Duffy (Museum Curator, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site), “Lincoln in Negative Space: The Intersection of Imaging and Art”
William Charron (Partner, Pryor Cashman), “An Overview of Authenticity Issues in the Law”
Jens Daehner (Associate Curator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum), “The Phantom of the Original: Casts, Copies, and Value in Greek and Roman Sculpture”
Discussion and final remarks
May 2, 2018
Katy Rogers, President of the Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association
Sharon Hecker, Independent