In restoration there's a word we use for the history of a thing — provenance. Where it came from, whose hands it passed through, what it survived to reach you. A painting without provenance is worth a fraction of one with it, because what you're really buying, when you buy art, is the story of how it got to be in front of you. I have spent my whole life believing that the story of a thing is the most valuable part of it.

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