ART AUTHENTICATION  EXPERT

1/ Hans van Meegeren, the Vermeer more real than life "I painted it myself. I painted them all…" To escape the death penalty, incurred...

Mona Lisa It is undeniably the most famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, but also of the world. It is the many mysteries that continue...

For the Italian press, it is the second most sought after work in the world; it is estimated 60 million euros. Portrait of a Lady is an...

Carmen C. Bambach publishes on June 25 a study attributing the painting largely to an assistant of the master. We can not see it anymore...

An "ingenious falsification" . For example, Greenway II LLC, a consortium of American collectors, describes Still Life as a fruit basket...

The gift was too good to be honest. The director of the Museum of Naive Arts and Unique Arts of Laval, revealed on April 8 that landscape...

To come to this conclusion, the researchers studied the drawing entitled Il Paesaggio (Landscape), the oldest work of the Tuscan...

Stolen in 1999 on a yacht moored in Antibes France, a Portrait of Dora Maar by Picasso, reappears twenty years later in Amsterdam,...

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

How to be sure that the painting you buy is 100 % authentic ? Unless you bought a painting directly from an artist, and that you have a...

The saga of the “Real” fake Rodin sculptures again in justice courts Industrial made fakes or are they simple posthumous casts? The Court...

Art is on the internet, in big and small auctions, in thrift stores, galleries, fairs, EVERYWHERE because with art is involved a lot of...

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

The painting showing two Civil Guardia kissing on a white wall, with the message "reserved for Banksy", appeared in April in the city of...

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

The 12 steps defining an artwork 1- the support used: canvas, paper, wood panel, etc. 2-the quality of the rendering: finishing, details,...

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

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

A fine art expert will not act like this Great Britain gentleman . Here is his story about finding a 160 Million $ painting by Picasso in...

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