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What are the procedures to authenticate a piece of art particularly paintings?

my uncle has alano,buenaventura and a picasso and a lot more which he is selling right now coz he is kind of old and he wants to dispose all of his antique collections and paintings asap.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Evaluating the price is relatively easy for works by well known artists. Any established auction house or specialist dealer can help. As far as AUTHENTICATION however, works by famous artists frequently can ONLY be authenticated by a board, or foundation etc that specialized in THAT artist's work. Since you will generally need to have a work authenticated in order to get the right price, you're going to have to do that in many cases.
Again, the auction houses can help point you towards the person or group in each case that can authenticated a particular artists work. They will usually expect however that you will offer the works to THEM to sell for you.