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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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How Do I Get My Art Appraised?

Fine Art Estates

That is, unless you happen to know that a similar work by that artist has just sold for $25,000 at auction. If you know the artist’s name, you can use one of the auction databases (listed below) that appraisers and dealers subscribe to. The problem is, of course, how will you know that happened unless you have it appraised?

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Fine Art Prints vs. Reproductions

Art Peritus

Have you ever wondered why two seemingly identical prints by the same artist can have vastly different price tags? The artist is usually not involved at all – or if so, minimally – and they can be either authorized or unauthorized reproductions. If the print does not meet the artist’s criteria, it is destroyed.

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Fine Art Prints vs. Reproductions

Art Peritus

Reproductions By Noelle DeSantis and Sarah Kirk Hanley Have you ever wondered why two seemingly identical prints by the same artist can have vastly different price tags? The artist is usually not involved at all – or if so, minimally – and they can be either authorized or unauthorized reproductions.

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How Japonisme Shaped Modern Art

Invaluable

Its impact on art would be long-lasting, as Japanese iconography and concepts were incorporated into European art by a new wave of artists hungry to change artistic boundaries and bring about artistic revolution. Japanese art’s striking characteristics fascinated many artists. And in Japonisme they found it.

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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.