Toby Stuart
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And the mission is to convince the art world that this is a Rembrandt.
He can self-anoint it a Rembrandt.
I mean, that's what he does, but he owns it, and that's not super credible.
He's got a little bit of an incentive here.
So he then has to convince the art world that it's a Rembrandt.
And how do you do that?
Well, it turns out they're just a handful of people, right, who are the experts in Rembrandt.
And they'll stare at it and they'll do all sorts of technical analysis on it.
But at the end of the day, it's often a bit of a judgment call.
Who gives these guys the authority to decide that it's a Rembrandt?
So it turns out, I should have written this up in the book, but I didn't.
The exact opposite thing also happened, which is there was a Rembrandt in a museum, I forget where, and it was delisted.
And it's in some museum, and literally the entire traffic of the museum is to see this one painting.
And many years later, some small group of people decide, in fact, it isn't.
It's not real.
Probably the $470 million.
And it's not only conceivably not real, it's like 10% of a Da Vinci.
I think it's the Salvador Mundi we're talking about.
And it's just a hand.
The whole thing needed a full restoration.