Get a Kittelsen Certificate of Authenticity for your painting (COA) for your Kittelsen drawing.

For all your Kittelsen artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

Getting a Kittelsen Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Kittelsen painting or drawing.

If you want to sell your Kittelsen painting or drawing use our selling services. We offer Kittelsen selling help, selling advice, private treaty sales and full brokerage.

We have been authenticating Kittelsen and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Kittelsen experts and Kittelsen certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Kittelsen artworks.

Our Kittelsen paintings and drawings authentications are accepted and respected worldwide.

Each COA is backed by in-depth research and analysis authentication reports.

The Kittelsen certificates of authenticity we issue are based on solid, reliable and fully referenced art investigations, authentication research, analytical work and forensic studies.

We are available to examine your Kittelsen painting or drawing anywhere in the world.

You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Kittelsen paintings or drawings take longer.

Our clients include Kittelsen collectors, investors, tax authorities, insurance adjusters, appraisers, valuers, auctioneers, Federal agencies and many law firms.

We perform Theodor Kittelsen art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests, full art authentications. We will help you sell your Theodor Kittelsen or we will sell it for you.

Theodor Kittelsen was a Norwegian artist born in the coastal town of Kragerø in Norway. He is famous for his nature paintings on the one hand, and on the other hand for his illustrations of fairytales and legends, especially of trolls.

For a time, Kittelsen studied painting and watchmaking. When his talent was discovered by Diderich Maria Aall, he attended classes at the School of Art in Christiania. Because of generous financial support by Aall he was able to continue his study in Munich. However, in 1879 Diderich Aall could no longer manage to support him, so Kittelsen had to earn his money as a draughtsman for German papers and magazines. When back in Norway, he found nature to be a great inspiration. Kittelsen started to write texts to his drawings here.

In 1881, Kittelsen was hired to illustrate Norwegian fairy-tales by the Norwegian folklore collector Peter Christen Asbjørnsen. His style could be classified between (Neo-)Romantic and naive painting. As a national artist he is highly respected and well known in Norway, but doesn’t receive much international attention and that is the reason for the fact that his name is hardly registered in registers of painters.

Black metal bands such as Burzum have used nearly all of his pictures as album art, notably illustrations taken from Kittelsen’s book Svartedauen (The Black Death). Still wondering about a Norwegian painting in your family collection? Contact us…it could be by Theodor Kittelsen.