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Documenting Your Art Collection

Fine Art Estates

Most Fine Art Insurance professionals will agree that the best way to ensure that an insured loss is settled quickly and fairly is by properly documenting your art collection. Providing Proof: Proving you possessed an artwork can be as easy as having a photograph of it on the wall of your home and a related bill of sale.

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Why Provenance is Paramount

Art Peritus

Why Provenance is Paramount As the holiday season approaches with calendars full of significant auctions and art fairs, you’re probably finding your inbox filled with emails reflecting on the sales trends expected to shape the market in the coming year. Allen, and the Ann and Gordon Getty Collection.

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Rock Star Discovers Award for Sale on Ebay

WorthPoint

Dave Davies of The Kinks discovered his Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame trophy for sale on eBay. Since these auctions can sometimes fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars, documented provenance is crucial to ensure that the items are properly attributed and the chain of ownership is known. WorthPoint—Discover.

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Building a Collection and Art as an Investment

Artifactual History Appraisal

I frequently see references to the concept of purchasing art as an investment or as a means of diversifying one's investment portfolio, a vision that is reinforced in the popular imagination with strategically edited clips of Antiques Roadshow where lucky people find out their yard sale item is worth thousands of dollars.

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John Register, Modern Master

Art Appraisal Resources

John Register, (US 1939 - 1996), “See Through” 50” x 35”, oil on canvas, 1995 Now selling live through LA Modern Auctions in Los Angeles, along with several other John Register gems from a private collection in Los Angeles. This particular painting was purchased through Modernism Gallery in San Francisco.

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How To Sell Art At Auction

Art Appraisal Resources

Auction houses are a viable option to sell your fine art collection if the conditions are right. Not all auction houses are created equal or can sell collections at a fair market value, especially if they do not have the marketing capabilities or buyers and messaging to reach those buyers. Not all art is created equal.

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Antique fortune teller machines lead at Potter & Potter September 12

Auction Central News

CHICAGO — Potter & Potter will bring more than 750 lots to market Thursday, September 12 in its Coin-Op and Advertising mega-sale. The event includes a big variety of fortune teller coin-operated machines with provenance to the Mike Gorski collection of faithful reproductions.