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Fine Art Registry™ Investigative Reports

Getting to the Truth

FAR case studies in Authentication, Attribution and more...

FAR® Investigates

September 21, 2007:
Park West Fine Art Auctions investigation Art Auctions on the Sea: Investigation of Cruise Line Art Auctions
by Fine Art Registry
Since Fine Art Registry™ published its two recent articles about cruise line art auctions, many victims of cruise line art auction fraud contacted us and asked for help. We are continuing to hear from them. We will publish their stories in hopes, mainly, that others will not follow in their footsteps. ...Read More


September 14, 2007:
Grove Art Dictionary The Grove Dictionary of Art: Fine Art Registry Investigates
by Joan Altabe
The watchtowers of art history must let their heads drop against the steering wheel sometimes. How else to explain the factual errors in the 34-volume Grove Dictionary of Art – the touted ...Read More


July 24, 2007:
Art Forensics, Jackson Pollock What Price Forensics? Another Possible Jackson Pollock Surfaces
by David Phillips
Another tale involving Paul Biro "authenticating" a possible Jackson Pollock (a different one), the same fingerprint, the same Tod Volpe in the background with schemes to separate the unwary ...Read More


November 15, 2006 - 2007:
Jackson Pollock, Teri Horton Jackson Pollock and Teri Horton: Investigative Report
by Fine Art Registry™
FAR Case Study on the true identity of Teri Horton's artwork, is it an original Jackson Pollock, or is she being mislead by supposed experts. Fine Art Registry news, articles and research into Teri Horton's claims. ...Read Case Study


FAR® Truth in Art Series

January 22, 2008:
The Truth About Art Auctions at Sea The Truth About Art Auctions at Sea: What an Art Auction is Not!
by Theresa Franks
Many consumers boarding cruise ships for exotic destinations are likely to be subjected at some point during the cruise to the snares of an onboard auction, advertising art work and other collectibles at unheard... Read More


January 14, 2008:
Limited Edition Reproductions Truth in the Fine Art Industry: Limited Edition Reproductions
by Theresa Franks
Pick up any magazine on the subject, visit any related website, talk to any knowledgeable dealer or gallery and you will soon find out that the field of fine art reproductions, limited edition prints, giclées, sculpture reproductions... Read More


December 12, 2007:
Art of the Past: Who Owns It? Art of the Past: Who Owns It?
by Joan Altabe
Stolen Art: Close to 700,000 art objects that were illegally excavated and exported out of Italy have been recovered. Some say that looted treasure approaches four times that number. But no one knows ...Read More


November 7, 2007:
Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?: Truth in Art Series
by Joan Altabe
Conflicts are a natural state of affairs. But some loose-lipped conservators in Holland have abused the privilege. In the spring of 1986, unknown Dutch realist Gerard Jan van Bladeren, armed with ...Read More


September 28, 2007:
Park West at Sea, Legal commentary Posthumous Bronze Casting: Truth in Art Series
by Joan Altabe
Art scholars and museum officials have been bumping heads over Degas bronzes traveling the museum circuit. Scholars say the bronzes are not by Degas, but merely reproductions ...Read More


June 26, 2007:
False dichotomy in Art Authentication False Dichotomy in Art Authentication: Forensics and Informed Intuition Don't Have to Fight  |  by Cindy Ellen Hill, Esq.
Blame it on television. Millions of Americans watch those crime shows, the ones in which earnest lab techs on a mission to protect the innocent routinely leave their hermetically sealed lab environs ...Read More


June 26, 2007:
Mistakes in Attribution Mistakes in Attribution: Truth in Art Series
by Joan Altabe
The "experts" don't always get it right. Consider the case of chemist Walter C. McCrone, a leading expert on art forgeries. In 1978, McCrone dated the Shroud of Turin – thought to be the burial cloth ...Read More


June 1, 2007:
Provenance and Connoisseurship Provenance and Connoisseurship: Investigative Report
by Joan Altabe
The story of art forgery is as old as the Seven Hills of Rome. Michelangelo sculpted a Cupid, buried it in a Roman garden for that dug-up antiquity look and sold it for an inflated price. Why? ...Read More


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