My father was an artist, also suffering from some dementia, and towards the end he went through huge stacks of his work and put much of it aside and told me to

My father was an artist, also suffering from some dementia, and towards the end he went through huge stacks of his work and put much of it aside and told me to throw those away. But I noticed that a number of the ones he wanted me to throw away were works he had signed. So when he made them, he had been proud of them. My thinking was similar to Marquez's sons: why should I trust his opinion now rather than his opinion then? So I put them aside and labeled them as "rejected" rather than throwing them away. They will always be listed as "rejected" but I still think they were worth keeping.