Good question came through about selling paintings and providing a CERTIFICATE of AUTHENTICATION. I sometimes get asked to provide a certificate of authentication for a sold painting, and I comply, but the entire request is superfluous. Certificates are only needed for works of art that can be reproduced and/or editioned (a print, a litho, a photo, a sculpture in some instances). A painting is - in and of itself - its own certificate of authentication because it is the only one of its kind. It is unique - that is to say, you cant whip off one exactly the same by mechanical processes. Ditto signatures: in the rare occassion that ive negelected to sign the back* and people are bent out of shape ... Lets remember that the painting itself is the signature. My signature is useless. *ALWAYS the back. There is a certain aphorism that states you can judge an artists worth inversely by the size of his signature. Food for thought.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 13:47:32 +0000
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