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Building a Collection and Art as an Investment

Artifactual History Appraisal

One of the biggest headaches in my line of work is the issue of authenticity, or is the work what it says it is? Purchase of a work directly from the artist or the gallery representing the artist is considered a very good provenance in the appraisal world, and will help support a work's value and authenticity in the future.

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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. Anything else is a later printing based on the originals.

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

Art Services 2000

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. Audubon had hired Kidd to make a number of oil paintings of his Birds of America. but that is another story, entirely.)