About Us

Authenticating a Degas painting requires multi-spectral photography, x-rays, ultraviolet, infrared, hyper high resolution, digital image analysis software.

Authenticating a Degas painting requires advanced education in art history and years of authentication practice and experience.

If you have a Degas that is perhaps a new discovery, or a long lost, or long hidden away, or stolen, or looted painting, that has just resurfaced; we have the means, the resources, the experts, the advanced education and the experience, to authenticate it, certify it, issue the COA and appraise its value.

It you want to sell it, we have the buyers, the connections, the clients who are looking to buy.

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.