Second meeting of the “Compagnie Nationale des Experts” , which is the National Company of experts in France. President CNE, Mr. Castaing...

So many customers are spending tons of money to have poor research for authentication. Recently a customer contacted me with what she...

I read the following about art authenticity: A formal certificate of authenticity is not necessarily required to prove a work of art is...

Glossary used in the business of art: after – a direct imitation of an original artwork, made at a later date assistant – someone who...

Authentication of a painting with the help of scientific analysis The analysis of paint helps to 1- identify the manner an artist is...

Many scandals in the art world have caused lots of damage not only to the auction houses but also to the reputation of galleries,...

The provenance is the study of ownership of an artwork. It is essential in the research of authenticity of an artwork, the ownerships,...

For example, a client in Abu Dhabi consults me to research a Picasso he discovered in his attic. Step 1: First, I ask the customer to...

In my opinion, it is impossible to have a 100% certitude that a painting that comes with a C.O.A. is authentic. Unless you bought a...

An art authentication or C.O.A. is a certificate made by the solely recognized authenticator for an artist. A solely recognized...

"Is a certificate of authenticity for an artwork, painting, watercolor, print, sculpture, necessary?" "Is a C.O.A. indisputable? " I am...

Reaction to the hegemony of classic perfection, Mannerism is an aesthetic current of the end of the Renaissance, which considers a new...

The current of New Objectivity, "Neue Sachlichkeit" in German, was born in Berlin after the First World War. In defeated Germany, won by...

Founded in 1848 by the English Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt, the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood...

Created by Kasimir Malevitch in 1915, Suprematism brings together several Russian constructivist artists around it. It was born from an...

The Renaissance concept is stated in the XVIth century by Giorgio Vasari. This Florentine author, inventor of art history, published the...

The avant-garde movement that appeared in Italy in the 1960s, Arte Povera, embodies a distrust of consumer society (especially that of...

From the middle of the XVIth century XVIIIth century, the Baroque style marked European art and architecture, not to mention the fields...

School or style? The Bauhaus (1919–1933) is both. This school of applied arts, laboratory of modernism, was founded in Weimar, Germany....

Welcome to the sixties! The expression "Op Art "or "optical art "was adopted to bring together abstract artists working on visual effects...