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Selling American Paintings to Buyers Doesn’t Have to be Hard. Read These 5 Tips

Antique Appraisers Auctioneers

If you have inherited or previous purchased an American painting that you want to sell, you may be wondering where to start and how to get it noticed by American art collectors. Seek help from American art appraisers The first tip is to consult with American art appraisers. Know your painting. It must be authenticated.

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How To Sell Art At Auction

Art Appraisal Resources

Qualified appraisers and advisors can help determine if the auction market is the right choice to sell your fine art. An original Monet painting could sell for over $600,000,000, but a lesser quality, different medium, or scene painting with less than solid provenance could sell for $600,000. Is it a copy, a forgery, or a fake?

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Blame it on Audubon. Or how I became a fine art appraiser, Part Two.

Art Services 2000

One book, "Audubon in Florida" first published in 1974 from the University of Miami Press was especially helpful in identifying the birds that were the Florida species that he found and rendered life-sized in his original watercolors. The book's author Kathryn Hall Proby ( b. Audubon is shown here in an engraving by H.B.

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Blame it on Audubon. Or How I became a fine art appraiser. Part Five.

Art Services 2000

With the advent of The Audubon Society and the 20th Century's interest in the environment Audubon's name is known throughout the world and his images of birds can be found everywhere, the rarest being his one of a kind watercolors, paintings, and drawings.

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Building a Collection and Art as an Investment

Artifactual History Appraisal

In many cases, if you have available capital to invest, you're better off directing it to a mutual fund or similar traditional investment infrastructure than buying paintings with the expectation that a few years down the road they will greatly increase in value. Do landscape paintings sooth you, or do you enjoy Impressionist cafe scenes?

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Blame it on Audubon: Or how I became a fine art appraiser. Part Three

Art Services 2000

Books can become friends and in my case they have been a central factor in my life and work as an appraiser. Audubon had hired Kidd to make a number of oil paintings of his Birds of America. When he discovered this illegal "appropriation" Audubon was not pleased and ended his business association with Kidd.

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Lost Fine Art: ‘Medicine’ by Gustav Klimt

ValuePros Appraisal Services

Upon presenting his paintings, ‘Philosophy’, ‘Medicine’ and ‘Jurisprudence’, Klimt came under attack for ‘pornography’ and ‘perverted excess’ in the paintings. None of the paintings would go on display in the university.