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How To Sell Art At Auction

Art Appraisal Resources

Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso are two of the most well-known and collectible artists of all time, but not all of their works will garner the high prices we have come to know from the blockbuster sales that are now well known. There is a wide variation in values within the same artist. Not all art is created equal.

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Building a Collection and Art as an Investment

Artifactual History Appraisal

This will help you better target the sorts of artists and works that will suit your collection's vision. With a little research, one can find contemporary artists making works in a variety of styles encompassing the entire span of art history, as well as older antique works.

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American Folk Art: Celebrating the Creativity and Craftsmanship of Everyday Artisans 

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The vast American folk art tradition offers authentic, innovative, and captivating creations whose reach spans generations and modes of creative expression. Elaborate cedar or maple carvings, for example, or ceramic vessels underscore the trend in the field to focus on media that allow the expertise of the maker’s hand to shine.

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American Folk Art: Celebrating the Creativity and Craftsmanship of Everyday Artisans 

Invaluable

The vast American folk art tradition offers authentic, innovative, and captivating creations whose reach spans generations and modes of creative expression. Elaborate cedar or maple carvings, for example, or ceramic vessels underscore the trend in the field to focus on media that allow the expertise of the maker’s hand to shine.

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

Antique Appraisers Auctioneers

American art collectors can be a diverse lot and they take a wide-ranging interest in artists ranging from John Singer Sargent to Georgia OKeefe. They can identify authentic paintings and point out fakes. It must be authenticated. That can be fairly simple with more recent paintings by an artist who is still alive.

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

Art Services 2000

I especially loved the old illustrated books and my favorite above all others was an old copy of Dante's Inferno illustrated by the French artist Gustave Dore. At first I attempted to answer the public's questions but as we had an ever increasing amount of requests for monetary values and authentications.

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Plein Air Paintings: Capturing the Essence of Nature

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While early plein air painters often relied on watercolors, which were portable and quick to dry, it wasn’t until the 19th century that the technique truly transformed with the advent of collapsible oil paint tubes. What changed was as much a technical revolution as an artistic one. The invention of portable oil paints by John G.