Auction Caution !!!
Online or live auction MUST do–request a condition report, if not cited in artwork’s listing. Planned to bid on a painting at auction Requested condition report Received the following “Good. […]
The Other Side of “Famous Artist” is Illegible
Volunteering to help a charity price art locally, I worked shoulder to shoulder with Anita, a savvy woman who commented every art appraiser’s lament “If only artists would sign their […]
How Art Savvy is the Art Whisperer?
At the age of 16, I bought my first Alexander Calder at auction. Later that year I was spellbound at The Prado museum having viewed my first few Hieronymus Bosch and […]
No time for an art history degree . . .
Over breakfast, an intense, relatively young ER physician expressed the notion “I want to buy art intelligently, but I don’t have time to earn an art history degree or to […]