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How To Sell Art At Auction

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Qualified appraisers and advisors can help determine if the auction market is the right choice to sell your fine art. Appraisers must use the most recent data, as the best indicator of the current market, when conducting appraisals. Subject/Genre - I have appraised many of Andy Warhol's original screenprints.

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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. End of Part Two.

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

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

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Books can become friends and in my case they have been a central factor in my life and work as an appraiser. In order to understand the work of Audubon it is essential to know that the engravings and lithographs that have been made from his original watercolors have been issued in may forms and a number of editions.

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

Art Services 2000

He was a house guest at several East Florida plantations and he created a number of his original watercolors of the bird species that he found. Foshay was the former curator of the New York Historical Society that has all of the original watercolors for "The Birds of America" in its collection.

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So You Found A John George Brown Painting?

Harrison Appraisals

While many of these works are oils on canvas, Brown also returned to watercolor, a medium he used in the mid-19 th century. first appeared on Harrison Appraisals, LLC | Appraisal Firm | Westminster MD. 5 “Brown Bio”. 6 Letha Clair Robertson, “John George Brown”.

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Missing Fine Art: Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent Van Gogh

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FINE ART APPRAISERS Our staff of experts certify the value of hundreds of pieces of fine art every month. The post Missing Fine Art: Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent Van Gogh appeared first on ValuePros Appraisal Services.