Provenance Research Today

Principles, Practice, Problems
This indispensable handbook, co-published with the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR), covers all major aspects of provenance research and guides the reader through the theoretical and practical complexities of this challenging subject.
Covering key aspects of provenance research for the international art market, this accessible publication, co-published with the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR), explores a range of themes including challenges and best practice to considerations specific to Nazi looted art and the trade in illicit antiquities.

Provenance research is a crucial component of any art-market transaction. Without a provenance it is often difficult to establish a work’s authenticity, its true value or who has legal title. Whether buying, selling or simply maintaining an artwork in either a private or a public collection, the days when a blind eye could be turned to the history (or the lack of a known history) of a work have long gone. Proper, thorough and effective provenance research is the minimum required and demanded in today’s art world – a world that is increasingly recognising the need for greater and more effective self-regulation in the face of fakes, forgeries and challenges to ownership or authenticity that are now commonplace.

Provenance Research Today is essential reading for a broad audience, from those studying to become part of the art world or professionals starting a career in provenance research, to collectors or would-be collectors, dealers, galleries, auction houses, police and art lawyers.

Contributor: Arthur Tompkins (Edited by), Lynda Albertson (Contributions by), Susan J. Cooke (Contributions by), Tess Davis (Contributions by), Amelie Ebbinghaus (Contributions by), Simon Mackenzie (Contributions by), Sharon Flescher (Contributions by), Andrea Lehmann (Contributions by), Gareth Fletcher (Contributions by), Leila Amineddoleh (Contributions by), Jennifer Mass (Contributions by), Jason Sousa (Contributions by), James Ratcliffe (Contributions by), Ariane Moser (Contributions by), Iris Schmeisser (Contributions by), Louisa Wood Ruby (Contributions by), Marie Stolberg (Contributions by), Lynn Rother (Contributions by), Donna Yates (Contributions by), Marc Masurovsky (Contributions by)

Pages: 224

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