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What We Research
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- Signatures
- Illegible signatures
- Unsigned paintings
- Monograms
- Unknown Monograms
- Symbols
- Collections' and collectors'
stamps, seals and marks since the 1500s
- Stamps, labels and stencils
found on the back of paintings
- Unknown artists
- Artists who used different
names
- Artists biographies
- Artists bibliographies since
the 1500s
- Exhibitions since the 1700s
- Auction sales since the 1600s
- Other works by the same
artist
- Artists works in museums and
collections
- Works that have no recorded
history, no documented origin or provenance
- Paintings that were found or
acquired in interesting circumstances or places
- Paintings that have a family
tradition of being by an important artist
- Paintings that have never
been researched
- Paintings mistaken as copies
when in fact they are the originals
- Paintings labeled as copies
which might be duplicate originals
- Original of a painting in
museums and collections
- Copies of a painting in
museums and collections
- Related works by other
artists
- Works which may have been
executed as a sketch for a well known painting
- Juvenalia
- Atypical works
- Unfinished works
- Long lost paintings
- Old attributions and
authentications
- Questionable attributions
- Paintings which have been
rejected for frivolous reasons
- Authentications which have
been denied
- Paintings which have been
declared to be forgeries without any serious
research
- Provenance
- History of ownership
- Date or period paintings were
executed
- Country or region where
paintings were executed
- Schools and styles
- Location of landscapes,
cities, landmarks represented in paintings
- Identity of portraits
- Nature, location, date of
events depicted
- Iconography and allegories.
Legendary, religious, mythological, esoteric,
hermetic
- Restoration which has been
performed
- Modifications to the subject,
size or support
- Nature, age and origin of art
materials and frames since the 1200s
- Age, origin and meaning of
inscriptions
- The market for an artist
- Museums seeking works by a
certain artist
- Galleries for an artist
- Works for sale by a certain
artist
- Market value
- Insurance value
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Information increases the value of art.
The most important piece of information is of course who
painted it or created it? This is not all. Who it
belonged to in the past, in what circumstances it was
created or for whom, what it represents (and this is not
always obvious), what some of the elements in the
composition are and what they mean, where and when it
was exhibited, where it has been published, the
relationship of the painting to other works; by the same
artists or by other artists; historical or other
significance, artistic merit, where and how it fits in
the chronology of the artist, or in the chronology of
art, all of the answers to these questions increase
importance, significance, desirability and the value of
a work of art.
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