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.
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We are launching a new series of articles which take up the cause of the artist. These will either be written by us as a result of interviews on a particular artist, or will be contributed by the artists themselves. They will tend to be about abuses and infringements which artists have been subjected to. The aim is to expose these situations so that other artists and also collectors can be warned and avoid them.
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As a result of many Fine Art Registry® members coming to us with questions about the authenticity and value of prints attributed to Salvador Dali which they have purchased, many of them at so-called auctions aboard cruise ships, we have decided to investigate the origins of these prints.
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As a result of many Fine Art Registry® members coming to us for answers on the problems that plague the art industry, we have decided to dedicate a section of Fine Art Registry to report on all our interesting approaches to these issues.
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The Millennium Impressions. Recent Posthumous Etchings Made from Eight Rembrandt Copper Plates. Article and investigation series including the introduction, provenance, and survey of the market and value of the Rembrandt Millennium Impressions.
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Park West Gallery auctioneers and associates speak out about the cruise line art auctions and the deceptive trade practices involved in the organization and art being sold onboard.
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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.
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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... FAR® Investigation, July 24, 2007, by David Phillips, for Fine Art Registry®
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... FAR® Investigation, September 14, 2007, by Joan Altabe, for Fine Art Registry®
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... Truth in Art, January 22, 2008, by Theresa Franks, for Fine Art Registry®
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... Truth in Art, January 14, 2008, by Theresa Franks, for Fine Art Registry®
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... Truth in Art, December 12, 2007, by Joan Altabe, for Fine Art Registry®
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... Truth in Art, November 7, 2007, by Joan Altabe, for Fine Art Registry®
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... Truth in Art, September 28, 2007, by Joan Altabe, for Fine Art Registry®
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... Truth in Art, June 26, 2007, by Cindy Hill, Esq., for Fine Art Registry®
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... Truth in Art, June 26, 2007, by Joan Altabe, for Fine Art Registry®
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?... Truth in Art, June 1, 2007, by Joan Altabe, for Fine Art Registry®
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