How to Spot a Fake Picasso – artmarketblog.com Art authentication is something that I am extremely interest in so much so that I am currently studying art authentication at university.
Stamps, seals, stickers,labels etc. are extremely easy to fake and can give what may seem a watertight authenticity to a work. I am seeing more and more fakes and forgeries with accompanying fake and forged indicators of authenticity. The fact that many of these fakes and forgeries are sold at just a fraction of their true value should be the first thing that automatically make one suspicious of the authenticity of the work. Sane people don’t sell works of art for a 10th of their value online if they are aware of their value and could just as easily get the full value elsewhere.
image 1:
Genuine print
Sculpteur, modele et buste sculpte. (Sculptor, model and sculpted bust.)
17 March 1933
intaglio etching
plate-mark 26.6 h x 19.4 w cm
image 2:
fake print
image 3:
fake Christie’s stamp
image 4:
fake Musee d’Orsay stamp
**Nicholas Forrest is an art market analyst, art critic and journalist based in Sydney, Australia. He is the founder of http://www.artmarketblog.com, writes the art column for the magazine Antiques and Collectibles for Pleasure and Profit and contributes to many other publications.
