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Importance of Provenance
In addition to bearing forged Dali signatures, much of the provenance provided by Park West Gallery to support the authenticity of the graphics it has sold at cruise ship art auctions, is... Read MoreArticle, August 13, 2009
Authenticating works of art is grounded in the process of scientific analysis, provenance research, and connoisseurship. Provenance research focuses on establishing a document trail indicating... Read MoreArticle, July 27, 2009
The following is an introduction to Forensics or Forensic Science. The introduction will be followed by a series of articles focusing on the areas of evidence supporting art authenticity... Read MoreArticle, July 13, 2009
In the past few years, the media has covered a number of stories relating to the looting of antiquities and other cultural property. The sacking of Iraq’s National Museum soon after the fall of... Read MoreArticle, May 12, 2009
Fine art authenticity moves on a continuum from copies, to fakes, to works created by the artist apprentices from the schools operated by the master, to works attributed to the master, and... Read MoreArticle, April 24, 2009
Between 1986 and 1994, British master art forger John Myatt painted 200 new works and passed them off as originals by nine modern masters. Myatt succeeded with the help of accomplice... Read MoreArticle, August 13, 2007
California truck driver Teri Horton bought a painting for $5 in a San Bernardino thrift shop in the early 1990s. She showed her painting to an art teacher who thought it could be by American abst... Read MoreArticle, July 20, 2007
"Authentication" and "Provenance" defined. Before I launch into the meat of this article, I think it is appropriate to begin with defining two important terms used frequently in the visual art ma... Read MoreArticle, December 17, 2006
It sounds strange to question the validity of such a time honored, dyed-in-the-wool institution as certificates of authenticity for artwork, doesn’t it? However, if you stop to think about it for just a moment
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After nine long months the baby is finally born. It’s a girl! In the hospital she is quickly tagged so that there can be no confusion as to which baby belongs to which mother. She is given a name... Read MoreArticle, April 12, 2006
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