In their everyday lives, art advisors visit galleries, auction houses, art fairs, museumshows, and artist studios. They attend events, meet dealers, and do research.An art advisor acts as a professional guide, negotiator, strategist, and advocate, helpingyou navigate the complex and regularly unclear art market. Not like a gallery owner whorepresents specific artists, a good independent […]

While a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is the most common way to verify a work, several other specialized documents describe and validate different aspects of an artwork’s history, value, and physical state. A Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is a signed paper that atteststhat a piece of art is genuine and was created by the attributedartist.

You always hear about art in the secondary market. What does it actually mean? Arethey good investments? What are the benefits of the secondary market. Buying atAuction Houses such as Christie’s and Sotheby’s, Phillips, and Bonhams are supposedto offer art pieces with Provenance which is a French word that means that the piecehas documented history