Authenticating Salvador Dali - Whom Can You Trust?

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Authenticating Salvador Dali - Whom Can You Trust?

Dali Fakes #3 Authentication - What it is and Who Does it
It is a sad commentary on the totally unregulated world of art, that unscrupulous and self-serving, profit-seeking individuals and organizations with vested interests can subject the uninformed art buying public to so much false propaganda with impunity. Especially when so much money is at stake. On any given day through the cruise line art auctions alone, millions of dollars are being taken from unsuspecting passengers for art which is either fake, or bearing fake signatures and edition numbers, or is genuine but fraudulently misrepresented as being worth many times its true value...

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In a recent quantitative comparative study focusing on presale presentations of fine art on the Internet this investigator noted that between auction houses, galleries,and private sellers of paintings differences exist in the amount of descriptor information supplied. Most importantly the average or mean of such information from the three groups was only 0.34. The 21 descriptors flowing from the categories of provenance, scientific analysis and connoisseurship noted that very little data was supplied in terms of provenance 0.01. This study confirmed that the art selling world is not engaged in providing enough information to buyers when offering art for sale. Imagine for a moment that the information supplied by the car dealer or real estate broker only filled in one third of the page of the sale offering. 66% was missing. Would or could we purchase the commodity under such conditions? In point, the laws and regulations would not allow us. Yet purchases of art worth millions of dollars are not under such stringent reporting requirements
and regulations. I would argue that fine art sales has yet to develop sound and strong systems and structures to promote authenticity.
Galleries are staffed by salespeople not always with a background in art, auction houses assert that they research for authentication but having won a few auctions this investigator is not sure, and private sellers offer little in the way of authentication. Put all three of the main purveyors of art together and it is no wonder that the buyer takes an unrealistic risk in an art purchase. One step in the right direction is the Fine Art Registry tag. At least there exists one piece of evidence tying the work to the artist.