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How To Determine If You Need An Art Appraisal

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Many insurance companies require a professional art appraisal to determine the appropriate coverage and premiums. Still, if you have something of value, you will benefit from an impartial assessment of fair market value so that you do not sell something too low to donate something of high value you did not intend to.

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Lost Fine Art: ‘Medicine’ by Gustav Klimt

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Upon presenting his paintings, ‘Philosophy’, ‘Medicine’ and ‘Jurisprudence’, Klimt came under attack for ‘pornography’ and ‘perverted excess’ in the paintings. None of the paintings would go on display in the university.

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Missing Fine Art: Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent Van Gogh

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First sold in 1897 by Van Gogh’s sister-in-law for 300 francs, the painting was subsequently bought and sold until being acquired by Siegfried Kramarsky, who fled to Lisbon in November 1939 and arrived January 1940 in New York. Paul Gachet who took care of Van Gogh during the final months of his life. paid US$82.5 paid US$82.5

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Lost Fine Art: The White Duck by Jean-Baptiste Oudry

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The painting is 95.3 Oudry produced mainly portraits, but devoted his creative life and the still life with fruit and animal painting. His painting “The White Duck” was part of the Walpole collection, which was exhibited at the country house Houghton Hall. Its value is estimated at around eight million dollars.

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Art Peritus Art Industry Spotlight: Katja Zigerlig of Berkley One

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Appraisals are important not only to make certain you are appropriately insured, but it can also help you make smart decisions about charitable donations, gifts to family members or making the decision to sell the work. K: Scheduled coverage separately describes individual collectibles to be insured at a specific value.

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How Do I Get My Art Appraised?

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Over the years, I have spent a lot of time on the phone trying to help people determine if the painting they found in a garage sale is worth anything. I took no pleasure in having to explain that they had one of the many reproductions of the painting and their hopes of having won the art lottery was only a lovely dream.