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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. As with any art, it takes a special knowledge base and skill set to accurately appraise and American painting and determine its value. Know your painting.

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How To Sell Art At Auction

Art Appraisal Resources

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 the same Albert Bierstadt (Germany/US 1830 - 1902) or a painting with a Bierstadt signature? Is it a copy, a forgery, or a fake?

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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

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

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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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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. Set of Seven Round Polychrome Painted Masonite Pennsylvania Dutch-style Hex Signs. Pennsylvania Dutch hand painted plate with Distelfink. Gee’s Bend Quilt, Bettie B.

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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. Set of Seven Round Polychrome Painted Masonite Pennsylvania Dutch-style Hex Signs. Pennsylvania Dutch hand painted plate with Distelfink. Gee’s Bend Quilt, Bettie B.