Do you dare sending your art to a laboratory? Someone clever might once have told us that we ask the person who has the answer we would like to hear. Another good one is… Topics: art forger, art fraud, authentication, fake art, falsification, forgery, laboratory, provenance
Wolfgang Beltracchi: the celebrated art villain A few year ago the art market was shook up by a far-reaching art falsification scandal worth millions, and in turn it wiped away the… Topics: art falsification, art forger, art forgery, Helene Beltracchi, provenance, Wolfgang Beltracchi
Provenance: how a con man and a forger rewrote the history of modern art There are books, and then there are fantastic books. Provenance by Salisbury and Sujo is the latter. It is now a couple of years old,… Topics: a good read, art, art market, book review, forgery, provenance
Up to 30% of all collectible art could be fake Ernst Schöller estimates that up to 30% of the ‘top end’ collectible art is forged. He is an industry expert from Stuttgart and a colleague… Topics: art forger, Collector, fake art, falsification, forgery, provenance
2 categories of art theft—one worse than the other There are multitudes of art theft types. But they roughly fall into two categories. The high end art heists and the less so. As you… Topics: antiques, antiquity, art heist, art theft, Belinni, Britsh Museum, Corsica, International art, interpol, New Scotland Yard, Palais Fesch, provenance, Sculpture
The price of art demystified If you are fairly new to buying art, the best advice is no advice. The second best advice is to look at art. Then look,… Topics: art, art collection, art dealing, art pricing, artist, provenance
Provenance, art appraisal and authentication Here is a primer on the interconnected terms of provenance, authentication and appraisal. Whilst there are important overlaps, there are some important distinctions which suggest… Topics: art appraisal, authentication, forgery, provenance
