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Toby Stuart

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
783 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

And the mission is to convince the art world that this is a Rembrandt.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

He can self-anoint it a Rembrandt.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

I mean, that's what he does, but he owns it, and that's not super credible.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

He's got a little bit of an incentive here.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

So he then has to convince the art world that it's a Rembrandt.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

And how do you do that?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

Well, it turns out they're just a handful of people, right, who are the experts in Rembrandt.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

And they'll stare at it and they'll do all sorts of technical analysis on it.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

But at the end of the day, it's often a bit of a judgment call.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

Who gives these guys the authority to decide that it's a Rembrandt?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

So it turns out, I should have written this up in the book, but I didn't.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

The exact opposite thing also happened, which is there was a Rembrandt in a museum, I forget where, and it was delisted.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

And it's in some museum, and literally the entire traffic of the museum is to see this one painting.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

And many years later, some small group of people decide, in fact, it isn't.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

Probably the $470 million.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

And it's not only conceivably not real, it's like 10% of a Da Vinci.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

I think it's the Salvador Mundi we're talking about.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

And it's just a hand.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Toby Stuart (on social status)

The whole thing needed a full restoration.