If you want to determine who the author of your painting or reproductions is, then using modern information technologies to do this is easy. However, you can turn to experts directly.
Instruction manual
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Take a picture of the painting and its reverse side or reproduction, the authorship of which you are interested in. In order to determine the authorship of a painting’s reproduction, it is usually enough to go to the website http://www.tineye.com or http://gallerix.ru ("The Big Gallery"), register and post the image.
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Even if you decide to contact the experts directly in order to determine who the author of the picture is, do not show the picture (not a reproduction) at the first visit. Let the expert first determine whether a picture is valuable or not, by its image. Professionals will not take money from you to find out whether it is worth conducting a multi-stage examination or not. If the canvas really represents material or historical value, experts will tell you about it directly. But all the details you can find out only after a thorough examination of the script.
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Usually, the examination takes place in several stages: - technological examination (determining the time of creation of the picture by dating signs). At this stage, the base, soil, paint layer, bonding layer are investigated; - art history examination and the establishment of authorship (attribution) of a work of art. The painting technique is studied. - painting assessment (at the request of the customer).
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You can negotiate with experts via the Internet, by going, for example, to the site http://www.artcons.ru, where you can draw up an application for examination of a picture. In this case, the experts will call you and tell you how to proceed: to conduct an examination at home or in the laboratory.
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If you assume that the painting was created relatively recently (in the 20th century) and do not want to present your painting to third parties yet, refer to the page http://artinvestment.ru/auctions and fill out the application, indicating the following parameters: - material and manufacturing technique paintings (canvas, paper, cardboard; oil, pastel, pencil, watercolor, etc.); - vertical and horizontal sizes; - approximate time of creation (the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, the middle of the XX century, etc.); - signatures, inscriptions, tags, stamps on the painting and its reverse side; - the state of the painting (breakouts, scuffs, screeches); - any other information useful for the attribution to kartiny.Prikrepite quality photographs paintings application and its reverse side (if any) the signature of the artist.
