ART EXPERTS INDIA

No. We can examine your piece of art from photos or via live video conferencing. Alternatively, you may choose for it to be viewed at your location or at a secure art storage facility.

Photography is extremely powerful. We will tell you what kind of photos we require, and they will reveal to us everything we need to see. We examine photos on 50 inch/127 cm size monitors and can enlarge the smallest details.
Utilizing a video streaming tool also allows for a good quality examination.

We perform all the tests that are useful or essential for the specific type of painting or artwork we are authenticating.

Our team includes experts with PhD and Master’s degrees in art history. We have 20 years of experience authenticating artwork, having successfully completed thousands of projects. Our specialists are located in 23 countries and are fluent in 21 languages.
Our specialists hold an impeccable reputation of competence and integrity. And importantly, we have a long list of satisfied institutional clients, from banks and insurance companies to law enforcement agencies.

We provide initial opinions within a couple of days.

Our experts make extensive use of forensic studies. We use all the methods, techniques and technologies currently available. We conduct research anywhere in the world, wherever crucial information might be located.

COA is a Certificate of Authenticity. This document is issued after the authentication work has been completed and the artwork has been confirmed to be authentic. It is delivered to you in addition to the long authentication report.

Provenance is the list of the owners of the artwork starting from the time of its creation until the current owner.

The process is not the same for all artworks, but it always begins with photos, video or with an appointment to examine the art.
The second step is usually for our specialists to learn everything you know about your artwork. Some owners have papers, documentation.
The third step is to determine the best way of authenticating your artwork and what the costs will be.
The fourth step depends on what has been previously decided, including, but not limited to: scientific tests, technical photography, analytical work or research.
The fifth step is the delivery of the authentication report, and if everything went well, the Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is provided.

The most important contribution of the signature is that it tells us who is supposed to have created this artwork. It provides a clear and good starting point.
Beyond that, signatures are over-rated. Bad signatures do not signify that the artwork is not authentic, while good signatures do not always mean it is authentic.

Yes, because it tells you who might have created it. Moreover, people like names and signatures, and this is why designers write their names everywhere.

It means we will have to spend some time trying to determine when and where it was created, and hopefully by whom.

The two main reasons are:
that it in fact is not by the artist, or
that no effort was made to conduct research, investigate, check in-depth and
test if it is authentic.

It happens constantly. It happens all the time. You can hardly open the auction catalogue of any upcoming art sales without finding new discoveries.
There is still a lot of undiscovered art in families, bank vaults and all kinds of unexpected places.

Yes. All of them either have been or are clients of ours.
We have worked for major auction houses that have sold many works we authenticated for our clients. We have also worked for museums. And we frequently authenticate for important private collectors.
The main reason that our certifications are accepted is that we provide proof, facts, evidence, references, all showing the artwork is authentic.
We are not in the business of giving opinions, we present data.

There are a ton of foundations and committees. This has become a business and an industry of its own. Every artist you can think of now has a group of people supposedly looking after his “legacy”.
Artist foundations are just like people. Some are friendly, and when we approach them to ask if they would check something for us, they respond and help. Then you have the foundations from hell, unfriendly ones and even litigious.
Some foundations are well-organized and take the business of authenticating seriously, and they do it very competently. Many others, unfortunately, are run by people who have neither knowledge about nor training in art authentication, and often do not even have any background in art history.