Our Expertise
How do you build Degas authentication expertise?
- You start with a good general education in art history, an MA or a PhD.
- You become fluent in French.
- You visit every museum that has some Degas paintings, drawings, prints, monotypes, bronzes.
- You attend every Degas exhibition.
- You read everything written by the scholars who preceded us about Degas.
- You become familiar with everything forensics, science, technology and special photography can contribute to authenticating.
- You join a firm that handles a lot of Degas and you learn how it’s done.
Our expertise rests on having an entire group of experts who have done all this.
We have been authenticating Degas for 21 years.
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Contact Us
Examination - We examine artworks at your residence, your office, your bank, your attorney’s office, your art storage facility or at your hotel if you are traveling. At any art gallery or auctioneer. At any Government Agency office, at any Customs Port of Entry, at any Law Enforcement office or warehouse. In any place of worship or religious congregation building. In the premises of any organization, association, or club. At any library, college, or museum. At any conservator studio or laboratory. For insurance and liability reasons, we don’t receive or examine artworks at our locations.
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