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In Plain Sight: The Book As A Work of Art

MIR Appraisal

In June 2019, a large auction house sold an inscribed first edition copy of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of the Species for $500,075 – more than double its expected selling price. Now more than ever booksellers need a wide pool of knowledge from which to draw when making their assessments of an individual item’s worth.

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How Do I Get My Art Appraised?

Fine Art Estates

If you did not acquire the artwork through a gallery and cannot find similar works online, you may need to take the work, or send photo’s, to an auction house and tell them you are interested in selling the work. They gather information from over 979 auction houses from around the world.

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“We Have to Question Everything We’re Doing” – Veteran Art Dealer Richard Solomon on Bringing Galleries Into the 21st Century

Art Dealers Association of America

When I was in my early teens, she started bringing me around to galleries and would give me sculptors’ drawings for presents. When I was in the supermarket business, we all recognized the importance of brand identification. When did you first become interested in visual art? My mother was a very avid collector.

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