Submitted by George Shackelford, May 26, 2007 08:37

There are lots of paintings on which Rembrandt put his signature--effectively saying "this is a Rembrandt"--that were painted by people that worked for him and that he trusted. It seems to me that Sol LeWitt had mastered the studio system that allowed Rubens to negotiate with the British Crown over the costs of a London decoration. How the "master" chooses to regard the work of his assistants is, in a curious divergence from the present insistence on "authenticity," perhaps none of the viewer's business.

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