If you have a picture at your disposal, the author of which is unknown to you, or you especially liked a certain image on the Internet, but you don’t know who created it, you can find the creator of the work in various ways.
Instruction manual
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Take a picture of the picture and its reverse side, and copy the images to a computer or prepare for demonstration the image that you previously found on the Internet, the author of which you want to find.
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Go on the Internet and refer to the forums of experts and collectors, such as http://forumuuu.com or http://www.antik-forum.ru. Experts in the technique of performing the image can determine with an accuracy of 90% whose brushes this canvas. In addition, to determine who is the author of the picture, the experts will be helped not only by the image itself, but also by the reverse side of the canvas, on which there are often special marks of the artist. However, often only specialists can decipher them. Go to the forum of the site "Art of Painting" (http://paintingart.ru), where you can get detailed expert advice for free.
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With photographs of the painting and its reverse, you can refer to the website of one of the online stores or commercial galleries of modern painting (for example, at http://artnow.ru), especially if you are sure that the painting was painted relatively recently (in XX century). Forum experts are aware of all the smallest details of the life and work of foreign and Russian Soviet artists, even almost unknown, so with their help you can also find all the information about the author of the picture. The same can be said about the site http://artinvestment.ru, which, however, contains information only about Russian artists. A complete list of galleries is available at http://www.artlib.ru. The catalog of the most famous Russian artists is available at
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Go to the website of the Runet’s Great Art Gallery: http://gallerix.ru/ and either seek advice on the site’s forum, or try to find similar paintings (country, era, school, artist) yourself. There are more than 150 thousand paintings in the main exposition of the gallery and in its “storerooms” (archive), so finding such canvases will be a little difficult if you do not even guess what era, or which graphic school this picture belongs to.
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If you are offered to sell a painting, do not agree until you use all the possibilities to find the name of the author of the painting, information about it and determine the approximate cost of the canvas from various experts. In addition, you can contact the experts directly, but it can cost a lot of money, especially if you decide to sell a picture that does not escape the eye of a specialist in any case.
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If you have only a reproduction of the picture that you liked, refer to sites such as http://www.tineye.com or http://www.all-art.org. Moreover, the site http://www.all-art.org has a dictionary of art, using which you can try to find the author of the picture.
