In 2000 and eight, it occurred to Russian avant garde painting expert Elena Basner, then curator of the Russian museum in Saint Petersburg, inundated with a booming forgery market that if scientists chemically tested the paint in suspicious canvases, they might find something in its makeup which dated the pieces more accurately than other methods.
2000年和8月,俄羅斯前衛繪畫專家埃琳娜-巴斯納(Elena Basner)想到,如果科學家對可疑畫布中的顏料進行化學測試,他們可能會在其構成中發現一些東西,從而比其他方法更準確地確定這些作品的年代。