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Picasso Pending preliminary.
Anders Zorn.Signed oil landscape
Ongoing
Marc Chagall Completed. Copy of The Soldier Drinks: Le soldat boit - oil on canvas 1912. Bears signature
William Adolphe Bouguereau Pending on hold
James Wilson Morrice landscape
Completed preliminary.
Edgar Degas oil portrait unsigned Completed not attributable to this artist in our view.
Tadeusz Kantor (Polish) an inherited oil painting On hold
Maurice Brazil Prendergast beach scene Completed. Inno not attributable to this artist. bears signature.
Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia Completed. Not attributable to this artist - bearing signature.
John Constable landscape (circle of) on line auction Completed. Client advised
Pieter Bruegel the Elder/ Younger? Completed. Not attributable to either artist.
Dutch old master - skaters in a snowy landscape with windmill. Completed, Modern follower of  Andreas Shelfhout, probaly commercial enterprise circa mid 20th
James Ward oil dogs Ongoing preliminary.
Adriaen van Ostade Completed. manner of, much later work
Marc Chagall Completed.'Reworked copy of  La Danse' original 1950-2 Bearing signature
Fernand Leger  signed and inscribed watercolour Competed. Copy on paper of  La baigneuse Date: 1932 oil on canvas. Bearing signatures.
Frans Snyders monogrammed still life Completed
Rembrandt van Rijn - Portrait oil  attrib Completed
Vincent van Gogh  Landscapes Completed. Based on images: seemingly stripped and bonded commercial prints on canvas
Jacob van Walscapelle floral oil Completed. later copy of an original work in the Nat Gallery.
JMW Turner seascape. Dutch fishing vessel in a swell Completed. Not by Turner in o o. Possible attribution to Copley Fielding.
Frida Khalo x 2 Completed. Inno Commercial prints bonded on canvas
Richard Parkes Bonington oil painting Ongoing . Awaiting UV images
Théodore Chasseriau  French Completed. Not in our view commensurate with an attribution to this artist..
Gustave Caillebotte painting Cancelled by us
Diego Rivera signed painting Completed. Inno bears signature and inscription. Not attributable to this artist
Keith Haring attrib Internet auction purchase Completed. Client advised accordingly
Isidor Kaufmann Portrait painting Completed. Not commensurate with this artists hand, bears signature.
Picasso 3 works for legal clients Case Closed by us as at our discretion in our Terms and Conditions
American primitive school landscape, unsigned Completed
Jacob Van Walscapelle Floral oil Completed a later Copy of painting in the National Gallery Flowers in a Glass Vase c 1670.
François Clouet school of, Portrait of Mary Stuart,. Completed
Pierre Bonnard Cancelled by us
J M W Turner ? 19th Century figurative sketch "
Unsigned Impressionist painting Completed. Modernist work in the manner of Renoir
Georges Braque Completed
Constantin Brancusi   (Bronze Sculpture) Completed prelim study, unauthorised reproduction
Joseph Wright of Derby ( landscape oil) Completed. A period copy, unsigned of 'The Dead Soldier'. oil Royal Academy Exh.
Hungarian work on paper Completed Inoo Not attributable to the atrtist specified by client
Victor Hugo Attrib Cancelled by us
Thomas Hart Benton (American) Completed. Not attributable to this artist.
Antoine Watteau  A fête champêtre landscape Completed. Work in the style of the artist with known motifs. Further attribution investigation Pending
Jean-Michelle Basquiat (American) Completed.
French Impressionist unsigned landscape Completed. Probably Brittany school, follower of  Eugène Labitte
Rubens old master Pending
Tom Thomson (Canadian) landscape Completed. Follower of.

Tintoretto (attrib)

Completed Copy of Portrait of PETRUS ARETINUS
Winston Churchill water colour mountainous landscape
Completed. bears WSC monogram and this not attributable to this artist
Attribution to Titian...Portrait Completed Copy of a later Portrait of Ludovico Ariosto Cristofano in our opinion
Georges Roualt - Oil on Canvas dancers Completed. In our opinion not attributable to this artist, bears signature
Tamara Lempika - pair signed Portraits Completed- Copies of 'Saint Moritz' (1929) and 'Portrait of Pierre Montaut' (1931) Bears signatures
Markey Robinson -Irish.  Clown Completed. Client advised
Picasso Competed; Not attributable to this artist in our considered opinion.
Joseph Mallard William Turner vencian scene Completed. Copy of  JMW Turner's "San Benedetto looking toward Fusina" unsigned
Picasso - Auctioneer clients Completed Inoo not by this arts with signature
Diego Rivera oil. Completed
Gyula Benczur Hungarian Completed. Not atrru=ibutable in our opinion
Berthe Morrisot landscape oil Completed. Only subjectively similar landscape with added signature.
Rembrandt Completed
Winslow Homer oil seascape Completed. Follower of - Bears signature
Juan Gris Oil Completed. Bears signature and monogram. Not in our view attributable to this artist.
Winston Churchill
Completed Not Inoo by this artist. bears false WSC monogram
Fernand Leger Completed. A copy  of aknown work by another hand in our opinion
Gustave Courbet Pending, still waiting for images
JOHN OPIE Scheduled
De Kooning Delayed
Eugene Boudin Completed. manner of  - bears signature
Attelier van Dyck Delayed
Edouard Vuillard Completed Bears Monogram
Winston Churchill Completed bears WSC monogram
Alfonse Walde oil landscape Completed
Edward Hopper Completed.
Edward Hopper attributed marine  oil study Complete
Winston Churchill portrait oil attrib Completed
Joan Miro Completed. Vintage commercial lithograph Sur Quatre Murs
Cecil Collins impasto  oil signed Collins Completed. Inoo not commensurate with this artists body of work and by another hand
Salvador Dali print Completed Not an etching, litho based on one from Les Chants de Maldoror suite. With signature
Rafael Barradas figurative signed oil Completed
Winston Churchill floral oil painting on board Completed. Bears WSC monogram, not attributable to this artist, with stamps
Winston Churchill  landscape oil with monogram Completed Bears apocryphal monogram and not attributable to this artist
Thomas Cole landscape oil painting signed Cole Completed: Vintage (American) Oil pastel not attributable to Thomas Cole by another hand
Berthe Morisot attrib. unsigned figures in a landscape Completed. Not attributable to this artist, by another hand.
Claude Monet painting Completed
Karl Pavlovich Bryullov  portrait Completed. Not in our opinion attribuatable to the artist. A later work by another hand.
Georges Braque still life oil Copy of  Braque's painting called, Still Life with Black Fish, circa 1942. Bears signature
L S Lowry drawing Cancelled
Constantin Brancusi for auctioneer clients Completed client informed of irregularities
Eugene De la Croix portrait drawing Completed. Generic later 19c portrait - bearded man, fake Andrieu 'E.D' die estate stamp.
M F Hussain oil Completed. In the manner of the artists Bears signature.
John Constable landscape with an illegible signature. Completed. Later smaller copy of  study for the Leaping Horse at the V&A. Signature not identified
Diego Rivera Mexican peasant -oil Completed. A later more commercial image painted in the manner of
Jean-François Raffaëlli signed painting Pending.
Pablo Picasso still life Completed; Nature morte au pichet 1937. Commercial reproduction. Textured print on canvas
Paul Cézanne Landscape Tondo Completed. In our opinion not attributable to this artist
Edvard Munch Cancelled by us
Willem de Kooning Cancelled   "
F N Souza oil Completed. Folloer a composite of 2 images from his 1950's  works, dated 85 & bearing signature
Jasper Johns Flag Completed client advised
P Mondriaan landscape study Completed client advised
Cubist figurative oil on canvas unsigned Completed client advised as to attribution
John Frederick Herring Snr  an unsigned barn interior with horses Completed  In our view, by a Follower  of
Eugène Delacroix watercolour sketch attributed Inno not attributable to this artist
George Vicat Cole landscape painting Completed. Bears similar monogram. Inoo not attributable to this artist
Elizabeth Blackadder floral watercolour Completed client advised
Leonardo Da Vinci ?  Old master Portrait of a woman Closed by us
Kurt Schwitters Completed.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - signed landscape Lomg standing Pending
Ben Nicholson collage Completed Client advised.
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky painting Complete
Salvador Dali Completed
Brett Whiteley  oil - nude Completed client advised
Joan Mitchell painting Completed. Follower of bears signature
Maxfield Parrish painting on cloth Completed. Not attributable to this artist, commercial litho on fabric
Vincent van Gogh possibly early landscape oil Completed Subjectively more associable to the wider Barbizon school
Guido Reni unsigned old master oil on canvas Completed Later opy of  Guido Reni Madonna col Bambino
Jean-Édouard Vuillard Woman  sewing - pastel initialled Completed. Inno not attributable to this artist bears very questionable monogram
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - pastel - jeune fille Completed Inno not attributable to this artist. Bears apocryphal signature
Joan Miro still life Completed. Bearing signature, painted in the style of  Miro's Le journal.
Vincent van Gogh signed landscape Completed painted in the manner of bears spurious signature.
Henri Matisse Hold.
Nicolas Poussin unsigned landscape with figures Completed not attributable to this artist. Follower of Gaspard Poussin,
Rufino Tamayo Completed - bears false signature
Modigliani female ink and wash drawing Completed inoo not attributable . In the style of and bears signature
Aelbert Cuyp Oil landscape attrib unsigned Completed. Not attributable to this artist
Old master drawing attribution identification Completed In the manner of  Pietro Rotari
Moise Kisling painting Cancelled by us
Robert Pilot oil Completed bears signature
Frans Hals portrait oil Completed. Inoo not attributable to this artist
Peter Paul Rubens attrib portrait Completed 19 c copy of the engraving self portrait with  wide brimmed hat
Dutch Old master portrait oil Completed not attributable.
Pablo Picasso painting Completed
John Constable small landscape oil sketch Completed Bears inscription verso, follower of.
Edgar Degas attrib Completed. Not attributable to this artist
Salvator Rosa oil after Completed, Inoo not by this artist
Frederick Arthur VERNER  attrib oil portrait Completed misattribution by the seller
After Raphael drawing Completed, by a later follower, from the Loggia fresco, Joseph interpreting the Pharaoh's dreams
Joan Eardly attrib oil Completed -Client advised inno not attributable to this artist.
Henri Matisse painting Completed, bears signature
Attrib Govaert Flinck old master oil Belaams ass Competed not attributable to this artist
Heywood Hardy painting Completed. Copy of  "Thoroughbred" pos. after the litho of  1880
Arthur Lismer (Canadian) attib landscape oil Completed. Inoo Manner of bears signature
Sir Godfrey Kneller attrib portrait of a cleric Completed Not possible. Scott's commentary book, appears in picture, published 1785-6, Kneller died 1723
P Mondriaan signed oil Completed: Genre work by another hand bearing a false signature
Edgar Degas attrib Completed American Copy of "Chevaux de course à Longchamp, circa 1917. Havard student identity verso
Graham Sutherland Study" dated1976 Abeyanced
Joseph Mallard William Turner harbour scene Completed. Misattributed. Compositional elements post date the artist by 50 years
Joan Miro painting, signed Completed. A faux workt with a forged letter of authenticity dated 1976 in modern font designed in 1993 !
A J Munnings signed oil Completed. bears signature painted by a follower in the manner of the artist
Albrecht Durer engravings Awaiting additional images
Ram Kumar painting sig /dated 56 Completed. Modernist Asian school in the manner of the artist bearing signature and date
Winston Churchill oil Morocco ooc signed landscape Completed. Inoo not attributable. Bears spurious monogram and fake gallery stamps et al
Max Liebermann Garden oil signed Completed. A faux villa garden painting bearing apocryphal lsignature bought at on line auction !
Ferdinand Bol portrait old master painting Completed. Old hand wroitten attribution on back incorrect Possibly in the manner of Bol.
William Hogarth  an interior painting - oil on canvas Completed. Inno not attributable to Hogarth
Joseph Mallard William Turner Closed by us.
Georges Braque cubist work Completed. Inno not attributable to this artist. Manner of.
Graham Sutherland Abeyanced.
Alfred Sisley painting Cancelled by us.
Pablo Ameringo painting Completed. Inoo not attributable to this artist bearing signature
Jean Paul Lemieux painting Cancelled by us.
Johann Friedrich Overbeck painting Ongoing awaiting conservator inspection report
Albrecht Durer painting Madonna and Child Completed Inoo not attributable to this artist bearing signature
Post impressionist oil Prelim completed illegible signature.
Jack B. Yeats small oil Completed Inoo not in any way attributable to this artist
Henri Matisse online purchase.oil on canvas la Femme  Completed. Wrongfully attributed - bearing signature
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Completed. Manner of, bears initials
Raoul Dufy - Haras Du Pin painting Completed mid century lithographic print
Attributed to Edouard Manet, oil on wood. Completed; Inoo not attributable to this artist
Frank Weston Benson x 2 Abeyanced personal issues require delay.
Sir Thomas Lawrence oil portrait Cancelled by us
Kazimir Malevich drawing Completed. Client advised.
David Roberts Cathedral interior signed oil Pending held over untill New Year
A large Collection of originals incl; Gauguin, Govaert Flinck, Maximilien Luce, Toulouse-Lautrec, studio of Rembrandt, Jules Dupre etc Completed
F Wikman? Oil Completed: A copy Zwei jungen trinken mit einem hund by Christian Fredrick Gonne
JMW Turner ? / Walter Heath Williams seascape attribution. Completed Traces of signature found - W H Williamson 1864 (William Henry Williamson 1820-83)
Nicolas Poussin, landscape oil unsigned, attrib: Completed Inoo not attributable to this artist. Painted in .In the manner of .
Gerrit van Honthorst oil unsigned Completed Late 18th / early 19th c copy of Childhood of Christ.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Portrait Completed. Not attributable to this artist
Syed Haider Raza oils Completed clients advised
Sir Joshua Reynolds child portrait oil Completed. Misattributed. Style of. Canvas post dates the artist considerably.
Edgar Degas pastel drawing Completed  Pastel copy of  'The Mante Family' - Bears false signature
Paul Cézanne Landscape Completed. Not attributable to this artists - bears false signature
John Constable landscape Completed. Misattributed. Materials post date artist
Walter Heath Williams Jersey seascape oil Completed. Incorrect attribution. later sig found.
Edgar Bundy painting Completed. Verified as authentic.
Maurice Utrillo  Oil Completed. Copy / variant of Montmartre, Le Sacré Coeur 1931. Bearing inscriptiion and initials
George Cole 1 signed landscape oil 2 x English school Completed. Incorrect attribution. By and attrib. G Cole 19/20c also a landscape painter.
Winston Churchill drawing Completed. Not attributable to Winston Churchill, bears apocryphal signature WSC
Grant Wood   American school Completed - Polychrome copy of  In the Spring, a lithograph 1939. Bears apocryphal signature
Walt Kuhn Portrait Completed. Noy commenurate with his output of that year. Bears signature
Marc Chagall Pair of  signed watercolours Completed Inconsistent with the artists hand bearing signature.
Renoir signed oil study Completed Post dated copy, bearing fake signature
David Teniers oil Completed Incorrectly attrib. Sig does not read Teniers begins Th  similar Thomson
Abstract comp Completed Misattributed bearing spurious signature
Emily Kame Kngwarreye  synthetic polymer painting Untitled Competed In the style of, internet presented with no provenance.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau  oil Cancelled
Maud Lewis Canadian folk art Fully authenticated
James Abbott McNeill Whistler RBA., Americana... Nocturn.

Completed. Faux work based on Nocturne in blue and silver, Chelsea. With apocryphal monogram. Bearing fake printed gallery label dated 1871designed in free font Monotype Corsiva, not designed until 1995.

Richard Wilson R A oil Ongoing
Frits Thaulow . Oil Dieppe Prelim completed, client advised
Constantin Brancusi for industry clients Cancelled by us
Jacob van Ruisdael. Coastal scene oil Completed copy of the shore at Egmond-aan Zee Real In National Gallery
J M W Turner attrib - a view of the Seine Oil Completed. Canvas French Figure 12. not Turner. Technique also differs. Attrib. as it bears plaque.
Albert J Moore oil Client advised
Leonora Carrington Painting Completed Not attributable to this artist - bears faux signature and false gallery labels verso
Jean-Michel Basquiat Cancelled. Client discovered it was painted in the manner of by a friend.
Frida Kahlo Floral work in oil Complketed. Not attributable to Frida Kahlo. Anonymous late 18th early 19th c Spanish school
English school landscape? Illegible signature Ongoing awaiting infra red images.
Alexandr T Danilichev  Russian Portrait oil Completed. Successfully authenticated as a fully autographed work.
Frits Thaulow oil Cancelled by us
Picasso Cancelled by us
Jacob van Walscapelle  Old master Still life Completed. Modern commercial graphic variation on acrylic canvas
Winston Churchill landscape oil painting Abeyanced
Antoni Tàpies i Puig  signed mixed media collage. Completed; On line auction purchase, inno not attributable, bearing apocryphal signature
Georges Seurat ink landscape drawing Signed Completed. Etching signed in the plate P.L.SENAT again in the margin in pencil  Prosper Louis Senat (USA)
Adolphe Gottleib Completed A follawer of bearing and apocraphal -forged signature
MF Hussain paintings Cancelled
Paul Cézanne Landscape Completed. Manner of, bears apocryphal signature
Peter Paul Rubens oil copie "Holy Family With Parrot" Client informed
Winston Churchill landscape Oil Painting Completed, Not attributable to WSC. Bears apocryphal monogram and fake gallery stamps verso
Dutch school portrait circa 19 c Completed
Paul Gaugin Breton painting Completed Not attributable to Paul Gauguin.
A van Ostade oil Completed
Thomas Faed, R.A 1826-1900 Scottish Completed
Georges Braque Still life with guitar Completed
Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita watercolour recumbent cat Completed. Apocraphal work bearing imitative signature.and date.
Follower of David Teniers the Younger Completed
JMW Turner Inveraray painting Abeyanced
Portrait of a bearded man, work on paper Completed
Lyonel Feininger Cancelled by us
Russian Portrait  of a lady circa 1960 Completed Artist signature identified and confirmed authentic.
French oil portrait of Mary of Modena Completed Unattributable 19c.proprortionate copy portrait of Mary of Modena Attrib Alexis-Simon Belle
Frans Hals oil landscape Completed
Raoul Dufy  watercolour landscape Completed 1953/4 - Commercial lithograph pochoir, bearing pencilled Edition numbers and spurious signature
Clementine Hunter Watercolour? 'Baptizing on the Cane River' Completed Not a watercolour. From a 1969 print portfolio Six prints for framing.
Lucian Freud. Watercolour on a West's Prepared Watercolor Board Completed Not attributable to this artist. Contradictory is that materials pre date the artist by 17 years.
French school - manner of  Eugene Delacroix. Completed Not attibutable to this artist and likely a copy of a Turkish/Christian skirmish by an other
Eugene Boudin Pair of Maritime oils Completed Not attributable to this artist. Painted in the manner of with signatures
Marsden Hartley Floral oil with initials MH Competed Not attributable to this artist. Similar subjective motif possibly an added signature
Pablo Picasso Watercolour, Flûtiste assise et dormeuseur signed. Completed Inoo not attributable to this artist,. Incompatible, bears signature
François Boucher sanguine drawing Completed, client advised
Chaim Soutine Oil portrait Pierrot Completed prelim. Subjectively  and technically  inconsistent. Bearing false signature
Joan Miro Cancelled by us
John Constable Attributed. Oil sketch Completed prelim

Jasper Johns Inscribed and dated 55

Completed. Not attributable. Inscription  infers date not corresponding to known work output.
Paul Cezanne Still Life Oil Not attributable to Cezanne. Canvas post dates the artist
Jean Michel Basquiat Completed
Jacopo Tintoretto attributed portrait Incorrectly described,  no provenance, Client reimbursed deposit.
Claude Monet Signed dated 1887 'Champ d'avoine' landscape Completed. Bears applied spurious signature, faux  label. Vaguely in the manner of Monet
Thomas Gainsborough Attributed Portrait Complete prelim Inoo not attributable to this artist. English school in the manner of.
Constantin Brancusi Completed Inoo not attributable to this artist
Jackson Pollock  circa 1941 Complete Inoo not attributable to this artist
Jules Breton Oil Completed. Not attributable ti this artist. Paintred in the manner of.
Joseph Cornell for legal clients Completed. Not attributable to this artist. Follower of.
José Clemente Orozco Surrealist figurative oil- For a Legal Client Abeyanced due to clients personal issues
Giuseppe Castiglione Completed: Later work by anonymous hand bearing the artists name and stamp
Winston Churchill oil landscape Internet auction acquisition Completed  Not attributable: Bears fake stamps and signature
Pierre Bonnard -Abeyanced
Gauguin drawings Completed. Inoo not attributable, likely bearing signature
Altar painting manner of Rubens Completed Inoo- Not attributable to this artist
Marie Laurencin small signed portrait Completed Inoo not attributable and bearing signature
Jean Paul Riopelle oil abstract Completed -Bears a spurious signature. Inoo Not attributable to this artist
Paul Gauguin Sketches etc Completed. Collective items bearing signatures etc. in the manner of
Diego Rivera " Completed. Bears apocraful signature and has very dubious certification
George Roualt for industry clients Completed. Bears signature. Not attributable to this artist
Constable oil? River landscape Completed. The work post dates the artist and is subjectively incorrect to be attributable
Otto Freundlich Oil painting Completed.
Marc Chagall painting Completed. Facsimile image in the manner of the artist bearing a signature and date
Roderic O'Conor oil landscape Stopped
Rubens attribution Completed
J M W Turner? Unsigned oil sketch on panel Completed. Not attributable to Turner.
Jusepe de Ribera an Old master drawing Completed. 19 century copy not attributable to this artist
Keith Haring signed work Abeyanced
Maud Lewis  Canadian. Abeyanced
Tom Thomson Canadian. Female Portrait Completed Inoo- Not attributable to this artist
Dutch school - Old Master - Portrait Completed: Copie - Sir Thomas Chaloner - Sir Anthony van Dyck
John Constable signed oil landscape Crossing the Ford Completed. variation in the manner of  by a follower with signature
Pablo Picasso signed  abstract portrait Closed by us
Sidney Robert Nolan paint and collage Completed and confirmed  authentic. From the  Gallipoli series painted in Paris
Albert Bierstadt (American) Oil mountain landscape with waterfall Completed. Not attributable to this artist
Émile-Antoine Bayard pair of duel oils Complete: 20 c copies of the Reconciliation and An affair of honour
John Constableattributed- signed? oil with gallery /framer label Completed Not attributable to Constable. By  later follower. Label post dates the artist by 30 years.
John Constable signed landscape on millboard Completed: As C.E. Clifford colourman label post dates artist by 35 years. Added signature
Marc Chagall pair of signed oils Completed Subjective composite works bearing signatures and faux stamps verso
Picasso oil signed Completed. Faux bearing signature
Dutch Old master Completed.
Keith Haring signed work Completed. Copied variant of a known work bearing a signature
Marine oil painting signed illegibly Completed. Identified and attributed to William Adolphus Knell
Marc Chagall Completed bears a fake signature
Picasso oil signed Completed faux with signature and date not commensurate with the artists work
Meindert Hobbema unsigned old master oil Completed. Misattributed, follower of the artist
Sir Godfrey Kneller oil portrait Completed Not attributable to Kneller, by a follower of painted on copper
Willem Drost. old master Completed. Not attributable to Drost. Follower of
Winston Churchill oil Completed: Another internet sale fake from the same consignor. 3 this month.  Bears false monogram.
JMW Turner painting prelim Completed. Abeyanced and Pending further instructions from client

Antonio Mancini oil

Completed Bears signature.
Paul Signac 2 signed and inscr watercolours La Rochelle & Antibes Completed. Cleint advised
Bouvard Venetial backwater signed oil Completed. Follower in the style of
Jean-Michel Basquiat Completed. Not attributable to Basquiat, manner of. Sold by  on line auction with no provenance
Alfred Stevens Portrait woman with flower basket oil Completed. Style of Stevens bearing an applied signature
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Complete
Pierre Auguste Renoir Completed
Hendrik van Vliet Church interior Completed, not attributable to this artist
Charles Conder landscape Completed
Richard Wilson Italian Oil Completed. Anonymous landscape oil with added signaturre
19C British landscape oil Completed
Georges Braque Abeyanced
John Constable landscape Completed not attributable to Constable, Bears signature and date
Albrecht Durer stained glass Completed 19C wotks based on Engravins Willibald Pirkheimer & Frederick the Wise
JMW Turner oil classical landscape Pending new images
Henry Ossawa Tanner ? Landscape oil Completed Remnant of Initial letter S discovered. The work is not commensurate with H O Tanner
J M W Turner river landscape watercolour Complete prelim. Inoo not attributable to Turner, painted in the manner of
Picasso signed floral oil Completed, completed unsigned floral oil with added signature
Louis Anquetin ? Breton work Completed ALO monogram Charles Jean Halo chromolighograph 1919 Trafic voyageur poster for Chemin d' fer d' Orleans Railway company.
Jean Metzinger oil Completed. Not attributable to this artist. In the manner of ,bears signature
Issac Levitan signed oil wooded landscape Completed. bears signature, manner of the artist
Edouard Manet sketches Completed inoo not attributable to this artist
Lubov Popova Completed. Client advised
Edvard Munch Abeyanced
Barend Cornelis Koekkoek. Completed
Joan Miro fabric hanging Completed
Anne Redpath Abeyanced
Thomas Faed Completed, bears a false added signature. Scottish school followewr of Faed
Sir Joshua Reynolds attrib. For Auctioneer clients Completed. Inoo not attributable to Reynolds
J.B. Greuze signed oil portrait Inno not attributable to this artist
Martin Tovar y Tovar attrib Portrait Completed cliient advised
Albert Bierstadt landscape Prelim completed. Client advised
Van Gogh attrib Mountain landscape oil Complete Not attributable to Van Gogh
George Clausen oil Completed Clients advised
Kees van Dongen oil Pending
Clementine Hunter baptism painting Completed 1960 commercial print from portfolio. A variant of  Baptizing on Cane River.
George Leslie Hunter oil landscape Completed. Not   GL Hunter. Commercial vintage furnishing picture with the signature Hunter
Aldo Luongo Completed Authenticated
Carl Spitzweg oil Completed a variant of  the Flute Concert bearing a monogramme
A Y Jackson Canadian Group of Seven. Winter oil landscape Completed Not attributable to Jackson bears signature
Diego Rivera Oil portrait Completed. Not attributable to this artist
Diego Velázquez oil Completed work in the manner of bearing a signature
Guido Reni Oil Completed 18th century follower of
Antoine Bouvard Venetian backwater oil Completed. Verified legitimate, provenance scrutinised and also verified
Jean-Michel Basquiat drawing. Completed Not attributable to Basquiat, bears initials. Questionable certification.
George Clausen oil Completed. Follower of Clausen, bearing an incompatible signature
Edouard Manet attrib. unsigned still life oil. Completed inoo not attributable to Manet, incompatible and of Dutch origin.
Jackson Pollock Ongoing
Winston Churchill oil Completed prelim. Not attributable to Churchill, bearing monogram
Thomas Moran 1837-1926 American Completed
Honore Daumier Advocate portrait Completed Inoo a work by an anonymous follower bearing a similar monogram
James Ensor Abeyanced
Paul Gauguin oil Women before hut Complete prelim assmt\ Overpainted lithograph
Lawren Harris, Lake O'Hara 1922 Oil on canvas Completed. Not attributable to Harris, incompatible style for the year and added signature
J M W Turner signed oil Italian landscape Completed. Inoo not attributable to Turner
Jean-Michel Basquiat Completed, not by this artist beari ng a signature.
Jackson Pollock Completed. Inoo not by this artist beari ng a signature.
Germain Théodule Ribot Tableau Nature Morte Completed. In the manner of the artist. Bearing a signature.
Mary of Modena? Benedetto Gennari Attrib? Completed Not attributable to this artist. By a follower painted in his style.
Peter Paul Rubens Madonna and child Completed
Mary Cassatt oil Completed Not attributable to this artist. Created by a follower
Francois Marius GRANET (1775-1849) Instructed awaiting new images
Lillian Genth American impressionist - north African oil sketch Completed. Attribution fully qualified
Camile Corot oil landscape Completed. Bears signature. Follower of.
Franklin Carmichael -Canadian Group of Seven Ongoing: Awaiting new images

inscr. Leonardo Da Vinci  Old master Portrait of a man, drawing,

Completed prelim. Inoo not attributable, based on the age of the laid paper c 17/18c
Rembrandt Oil portrait Completed. Copie of Portrait of a man Met
Jean-Antoine Watteau Summer dance oil Completed, Follower of Watteau
Yves Tanguy Completed. No provenance, bears signature
Leon de Smet Asserted our right to quit under infringement of our Terms and Conditions
Peter Romney - English Pastel Portrait Drawing Brother of George Romney) Paused Ongoing
Pieter Brueghel the Elder unsigned Oil Completed. Period follower in the style of the artist
Robert Motherwell Signed Abstract oil Completed. Inoo bears signature
Raoul Dufy. Harbour Sig Dated 37 Reproduction
Manner of Rembrandt Portrait Completed A later American copy of Portrait of a man NY Met
Winslow Homer Adirondack Landscape? Oil Completed. Inno not attributable to this artists hand
Juan Gris Oil Completed prelim
Alfred Sisley Oil Completed, Inoo, not attribuatbel to this artist
Andre Derain  Oil Not attributable to this artist. painted by a follower
Aelbert Cuyp Oil Not attributable to this artist. by a follower
Eugene Boudin Oil Not attributable to this artist. created by a follower
John Singer Sargent Completed Inoo, not attribuatbel to this artist, +no provenance
French school oils, battle scenes Completed Painted by a Follower
Paul Sandby RA. Engravings Completed client advised
Nicholas Roerich mountainous landscape oil Completed. Misattributed in our view, bearing a monogram
Francesco Giuseppe Casanova Battle scene oil attreib Completed. Follower of.
Attributed to Pieter Brueghel the elder Completed. Wrongly attributed inoo
Turner signed oil landscape Completed.  Bears added signature. 19c follower of Constable
English school oil Windermere Completed Inoo Unviable to pursue further
Richard Wilson RA Oil Completed. Misattributed. 20th C work bearing R Wilson signature
Hudson River school oil Abeyanced
Winston Churchill watercolour painting Completed. Inoo. An anonymous watercolur bearing an added  monogram
Turner watercolour landscape Teasdale. Ind. signed Completed
van Dyck oil copie Cancelled by us
A Hulk  Coastal oil Completed. Neither Snr of Jnr. Bears signature
Yohanan Simon Completed Client advised positively
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio painting Completed Incorrectly attributed
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Pastel Completed
Maurice de Vlaminck  painting Covid Abeyanced
Mason Chamberlin R.A. Oil Poirtrait Discontinued
Francesco Zuccarelli oil Completed. Inoo not by this artist, misattributed.
Meindert Hobema Completed. Commercial reproduction of a copper printing plate
Emil Nolde Floral oil Abeyanced
Leonora Carrington Attrib Completed: Inoo misattributed to the artist bearing a signatute
Joan Miro Completed Inoo wrongly attributed bearing a signature
Yoshitomo Nara Abeyanced
Salvator Rosa (Napoli 1615 - Roma 1673), Attributed Pen and ink wash Incorrect attribution
John Constable landscape oil Completed. Inoo bears signature
David Teniers Interior Oil Abeyanced
Maurice Vlamink Oil landscape Ongoing waiting for painting for forensic study
L S Lowry drawing Auctioneer clients Completed Clients advised.
Diego Velasquez oil Later anonymous copy
Chaim Soutine oil still life Complete. In our view not attributable to the artist bears signature
Macke oil for Auctioneer clients Completed. Clients advised
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Completed. Clients advised
Gerrit Dou or circle Portrait Abeyanced
Karel Appel Abstract Competed. wrongly attributred Inoo Bears signature
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Completed. Not attributable to this artist pos added signature
Jean-Michel Basquiat Abeyanced
Pierre Bonnard oil on canvas Cancelled by us
Frida Kahlo Completed- Inoo a Facsimilie bearing a signature
Leonora Carrington Completed    "
Diego Rivera Completed    "
Louis Valtat 2 oils Abeyanced
An oil on copper Christ at prayer Completed: Inoo a Follower oin the manner of Hans Rottenhammer German (1564 – 1625)
Dutch old master? Completed Inoo a c19century work probably a copy
Gainsborough-.Oil Lady Fitzgerald Completed: 19C work in the manner of the artist
G Wood, seascape oil and watercolour Competed. Not Grant Wood or George B Wood,
Alfred de Breanski Senior- Highland loch oil Completed. An authentic work by the artist. Insurance valuation doc ument supplied.
VLAMINCK Maurice de Oil Completed. Inoo, a misattributed and unsigned work in the manner of the artist.
Lucas Cranach print Completed. Repro of drawing, engraved by W Muller in Weimar c 1860  identified as: Martryrium of St. Julian
Rembrandt 1650 Engraving Completed  identified as a 19c copy of Canal with an Angler and Two Swans - Drypoint 1650
Paul Henry Landscape Completed Inoo misattributed bears signature
Tiziano Vecellio Female portrait Completed. Clients advised
French school monogrammed old master Completed. Possible added monogram
Ambrogio Birgognone old master Abeyanced.
Turner JMW  watercolour Completed. A misattribution
Rufino Tamayo signed and dated. Completed. Manner of, a facsimile, bearing a signature
Attrib Gainsborough oil portrait of a gentleman Completed. Misattributed. Painted by an unkown Limner
Camille Corot oil landscape Completed. Clients advised
Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña oil landscape Completed. Inoo,not  by the artist and bearing a signature.
J M W Turner Watercolour sketch Avon Gorge Completed: Attrib. Bristol school, artist unknown
Isaac Israels oil landscape Completed.Online Internet purchase fake bearing false signature
Jacob Van Ruisdael Winmolen landshaft Prelim completed, client advised. Ongoing major investigation Abeyanced.
Chaim Soutine signed Floral Oil Completed. Not attributable to the artist, false provenance provided.
Modigliani female study Completed. inoo later 20th c work in the manner of the artist
Pierre-Albert Marquet  wathercolour Completed Italian law enforcement agency
Manet portrait- for auctioneer clients Completed Confidential
Matisse  oil " Completed
Alphonse Walde oil  " Completed. Copy of “Tiroler Dorfstrasse im Winter” (Aurach at Kitzbühel), 1934
St Gerome old master Complete 17C Italian, client advised. Ongoing major investigation
Francesco Guardi  oil Completed, Follower in the style of  Roman capriccio architectural fantasy,
Jean-Michel Basquiat Completed. Inoo a version of Made in Japan I., bearing added signature & false authentication stamp
Wm Glakens pastel floral work Completed. Inoo  misattributed bears signature
Maurice Brazil Prendergast  signed water colour beach scene Completed
Maurice Brazil Prendergast signed Oil landscape Completed
Polish oil painting. Sig illegible Completed Enhancement identifies artist as (L E ) Gabryelewicz.
H Matisse drawing nude stady? Completed. Mistaken signature.. Norwegian drawing of  an illegibley inscribed model
Picasso Completed
Goya etching Completed
Aelbert Cuyp Pastoral oil Completed, later Follower, inoo bearing signature.
Victor Brauner painting Completed inoo Bears false signature, not attributable to the artist
Picasso 1905 signed oil Completed.  Incompatible work by an anonymous hand bearing an added Picasso signature
Torres Garcia Construction work Ongoing preliminary study
Claude Monet Attrib Sunset landscape oil signed illeg. Completed  Not attrib Monet, dentified as Carl Gudnitz 1885 - 1952 Sunset at Høve Strand
H Matisse portrait drawing of a woman. Completed & advised Inoo. Direct copy of Matisse La Pompadour Lith 1969. Bears signature
Claude Monet Seascsape oil Completed. Inoo Bears false signature, not attributable to the artist
Winslow Homer oil seascape Completed  prelim. bears signature,
Monet signed tree study on paper Completed. Anonymous work inoo not attributable to the artist, bears a signature
Odilon Redon mythological painting Completed prelim inno not attributable to the artist
Stanhope Alexander Forbes RA landscape Completed - Inoo a fine art print bonded onto canvas.
Italian Venetian school, Renaissance Old master, an allegory oil Major investigation ongoing
Max Liebermann signed watercolour Completed prelim client advised. Major investigation instructed.
Eugene Boudin Signed beach scene oil. Complete. Inoo not attributable to the artist, bears signature
Paul Klee original print Completed> Inoo Commercial variation of One Who Understands 1934 ” Einer der versteht anagoria
Paul Gauguin portrait drawing Completed client advised
John Constable portrait Completed. Inoo a late 19c colour rendered photographic portrait
John Constable Completed, Unprovenanced and unsigned watercolours inno not attrib to this artist
Jackson Pollock Painting Completed, .painted in the style of the artist inoo
Mark Chagall signed watercolour Completed.  Inoo not  an original worj BY this artist. bears signature.
Bertha Morisot  painting Completed. Misattributed. An anon variation of  Renoir Le Moulin de la Galette 1876 Inoo
Sir Henry Raeburn 17C British Portrait Completed A work either after the arist as stated, or inoo by an anonymous follower.
Edgar Degas? Ballet Dancers  Completed Not attributable to Degas.
Piet Mondriaan Completed: Misattribution. A provincial  19/20 c  Nederlandish work
Vincent van Gogh oil Completed. Inno not attributable to the artist, unsigned and no provenance.
Winston Churchil painting Completed. Inno, not commenurate with his hand. Bears an applied monogram
Modigliani sketch .for Elvira With a White Collar Completed Not an oil sketch. A serigraph (silk screen print) likely commercially reproduced
Van Meytens pair of royal portraits

Completed. Likely German provincial works in the manner of vM

Titian oil - Venus with a Mirror Completed Inoo  an early 19th century copy
Simon Vouet oil

Completed not French, Italian school allegory 16c Client advised \ Full investigation ongoing

Jean Metzinger. Signed cubist painting

Competed Inoo, an anon work modelled on La Femme au Cheval bearing a signature.

Franz Kline large signed and dated 57 oil Prelim completed.  Unverifiable provenance

Peter Raul Rubens oil portrait

Completed Inoo a19C - 3/4 copy of the original Isabella Brandt Oil
Flemish interior oil painting Completed An Allegory of Vanitas inoo a work in the manner of Adriaen Brouwer
Oil Painting attributed to Francesco Guardi Completed A misattribution. Acopy of a work by Michele Giovanni Marieschi, 1710 – 1743 Venice
Picasso signed Harlequin oil Completed Inoo a variation on this motif bearing a signature and spurious Spanish authentication stamp
Attributed Le Nain pastoral with figures and cows in a landscape Completed. 19C work Inoo by a follower of Aelbert Cuyp
Henri Matisse. Signed and dated 1952 Completed: Bears signature, inoo a work not commensurate with his work of this period.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo oil Portrait of a bearded man Completed. An anon 19C work in the manner of the artist
Sandu Darie  2 Geometric works on paper Completed. In the manner of bearing false signatures
Felix Ziem Painting Harem Interior Completed inno a later signed variant of dance of the Almées by sn anonymous hand.
Renoir Portrait on paper Completed prelim
Jan van Goyen Oil Completed prelim
Holbein portrait Holding
Titian oil Completed prelim, a later copy
Manet Portrait Completed prelim inoo misattributed
Monet  signed drawing Completed, Inoo far removed from this artist with spurious sig.
John Constable Oil sketch landscape Topographically incorrect for this artist
Gauguin unsigned oil Completed. Inoo ubjectively and stylistically not attributable.
JMW Turner oil Completed prelim
Michael Dahl. Portrait of a Lady c.1700, Completed Misattributed.(bearing decorative plaque) at best described as Continental school
Guido Reni Lucretia Oil Prelim Completed
Lautrec male portrait Completed prelim
Picasso oil on canvas Lovers Complete. Vintage commercial print on canvas of Les Amoureux 1923
Camille Pissarro oil. St Thomas Completed.
Matisse signed limited edit.. Etching Complete Likely an illustration lithograph, .
Churchill monogrammed Oil ? Prelim completed. Inoo an added signature.
Utrillo painting 1923? Complete: Textured litho 'Rue Arthez' 1958 from the Donald Art Company NY
Corot Landscape Completed. Follower
Brancusi Prelim completed, client advised.
Picasso. Dora Maar 3d painting Not attributable to this artist
Gauguin still life oil Completed signature in UV there at inception and not that of Gauguin
Tamara Lempika Completed Works reproduced in the manner of.
Buffet Oil Completed
Glyn Philpot Oil Portrait Prelim Completed. Not attributable to Philpot. Added signature and gallery labelClient advised
Turner oil Completed Large oil work by a follower
Natalia Goncharova 3 signed oil works Completed Client advised
French Impressionist oil landscape Completed. Inoo. A variation /copy made at alater date
Winston Churchill oil landscape Completed. Inoo not by this artist
Rembrandt van Rijn landscape oil on panel. Paused
"Cy" Twombly  Untitled Completed. Inoo not by the artist as claimed by the signature...
Arthur Rackham Drawing Prelim Completed
Eduard Manet oil portrait Completed
Rembrandt van Rijn Old Master Oil portrait Paused
Pablo Picasso water color Complete: Not a watercolor, a heliogravure. From commercial portfolio Verve Vol 5, No 20
John Constable oil landscape Complete. Signature likley added and date does not correspond.
Picasso drawing dated 1964 Complete Not a work by this artist, bears no similarity to work executed on this date
Édouard Manet Still life oil Complete prelim. Forged, bogus  attribution documentation post-dates the 'experts'
Cezanne painting Complete prelim.
Goncharova Theatrical costume designs Complete prelim Client advised.
John Ruskin - Ducal palace Venice. Prelim completed. Client advised.
Brancusi wooden sculpture Completed prelim. Not by the hand of this artist inoo.
Alfred Munnings watercolour Completed. A work in the manner of Munnings with a likely added signature
Amos Cassioli Portrait of a young girl oil Completed. bears a false signature
Matisse gouache Completed Client advised.
Frederick Remington Gouache Completed. Inoo not a work by this artist but a follower bearing a signature.
Matisse pen and ink drawing Completed: A print: frontispiece of; “Les musiciens célèbres.” published under the direction of Jean Lacroix at the Éditions d'Art Lucien Mazenod in 1949.
Signed: Camille Pissarro An oil landscape Prelim. Completed: inoo. Signature reacts in UV spectrum. No provenance. Canvas manufacturers date, aligned to manner, but technique and composition is not commensurate with this artists hand.
JWM Turner oil Prelim Completed
Jean Cocteau drawing Completed.
John Constable landscape 19/20th century canvas bearing an added signaturre
Claude Gellée (Claude Lorrain) old master oil Paysage Completed Late 18 - early 19 c work in the style of.
Pierre Auguste Renoir, Les Arbres oil Completed.. Bears fake signature
Jacques Villon Cubist oil portrait Completed
Eugène Louis Boudin oil Complete. bears signature and inscription
Fragonard Jean-Honoré - Landscape oil Completed
JMW Turner Oil. Completed - Modest Copy of  the Sun of Venice Going to Sea, which he painted in 1843,
Picasso. 3 works Completed. 3 Forgeries, bearing signatures with concocted provenence. Bought on Ebay !
Martin Grelle - Western painting Ongoing. Waiting responses to enquiries
Pierre Bonnard oil on panel landscape Inoo Not attributable to this artist. Client advised.
British miniature watercolour portrait on Ivory. Completed Victorian era female portrait bearing insciption ' Gainsborough'
3 Picasso oils Cancelled by us
John Constable, watercolour Completed. By another hand. bears signature and inscription
Maurice de Vlaminck pair Oil Paintings Completed. Manner of the artist bearing a signature
Chaim Soutine. Closed
C. Monet signed Venician oil

Misread signature and incorrect attribution. Reads  Edouard Manet. Client advised Continuing

Korean antique water color Completed. Artist and date fully Identified
Lawrence Alma Tadema romantic figurative oil Prelim. completed. Follower of.
Raphael Sanzio da Urbino. The Holy family. Completed; Possibly Tosini workshop.
Roderic O'Conor oil portrait Authenticated.
Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia Bears signature
Gauguin oil Completed: Copy of 'Te raau rahi – the large tree – painted by Paul Gauguin in 1891, Cleveland Museum.
Samuel Henry William Llewellyn pastel Completed. A legitimate prelimi ary work previously offered at major auction
Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Three sculptures Complete preliminary assessments
Chagall Completed False COA
Franz Kline - late Painting Completed prelim. Client advised
Peter Max Serigraph. Completed: Cannot confirm legitimacy
Henri Hayden - Serigraph Completed. Legitimate
Picasso Completed: Bacchanal, II 1955 - Suite, Flute Double, commercial reproduction
Juan Gris oil Bears signature. A work based upon a know work by an anonymous hand.
Michel Basquiat Completed a Forged COA
Matisse Early oil To be presented to Matisse panel
Renoir Completed. Recorded in Vollard and Dauberville.
François Gérard - Oil Psyché et l'Amour 1798 Old master Completed. A smaller, anonymous early copy of the original
Monet oil floral Completed
Pierre Eugène Montézin oil Abeyanced
J M W Turner oil sketch Completed. Canvas post dates the artist. Attrib. anonymous follower of Turner
Claude Monet.  Lilliy pond subject Oil on canvas UV indicates an added signature. Inoo not the hand of the artist.
Modigliani oil portrait unsigned but annotated Completed: Inoo not the hand of the artist

Passarotto Old master drawing

Prelim completed
Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin, painting Completed. Inoo not the hand of this artist. Bears signature

Jean-Baptiste Madou (Belgian) Combat Water colour

Completed. Unfinished sketch
Pierre Auguste Renoir, pair of catalogued drawings. For fine art industry clients Pending investigation
Milton Avery  1944 Cello series oil painting Completed Inoo bears signature and in style of Avery
Picasso oil painting: Minotaur. For international legal cleints Completed. Presented with very questionable documentation. A painting copied from Minotaure amoureux d'une femme-centaure) from the Vollard Suite.

Marie Laurencin oil portrait

Completed
Chaim Soutine Cancelled by us
Jean-Baptiste Robie (Belgian, 1821-1910) Oil Still life of flowers Completed. Prelim.A good positive overview.
Franz Kline American Abstract work Completed./ By an anonymous hand, post dates the artist. Not by Kline.
Barnett Newman American  Abstract oil Cancelled by us
Bernard Buffet oil Abeyanced

Henri Fantin-Latour. Floral oil

Prelim completed client advised, very likely legitimate
Gustave Loiseau - French - Bords de l'Eure, Normandie 1923  Oil Abeyanced to later date

George Romney (1734–1802), Oil Portrait of an Officer. Industry clients

Not by the hand of Romney. Follower of.
Jan Josephszoon van Goyen-  Old master  - landschap; Oude stad aan een rivier Completed. InOO Not van Goyen, stylistic & technical contradictions. Follower of .
Jean Dufy Bridges on the Seine. Complete
Renoir Pierre Auguste ' Pot d fleurs' c 1907 Prelim completed. Investigation instructed by industry clients.
Group of Modernist abstract works from New York 1960's Completed cleunt advised
Francesco Goya - Drawings x 2 Industry clients Completed prelim.
Degas Edgar - Charcoal drawing of a ballerina

Complete: Early monoichrome commercial lithograph of  "Dancer Stretching at the Barre"

(Art Institute of Chicago)

Sir Thomas Lawrence R.A. oil Portait of a boy

Completed: Misattibuted. In the manner of Lawrence
George Braque - Bateaux sur une plage Completed a faux bearing a signature copied from  "Marine"  in Braque le Réconciliateur
Sir Joshua Reynolds RA. Oil Portrait of a girl. Completed. Copy after the original, presented with false provenance and documentation.
Lowry L S Created by anonymous hand. Bears false signature
John Constable oil landscape Vintage Scandinavian landscape bearing a false signature
Dutch oil Barn interior oil Completed
Francis Bacon Figurative Oil Prelim Completed.
Marc Chagall gouache Completed: Bears false museum exhibition and Comite stamps and various labels verso
Henri Matisse oil woman at window. Manner of. Matisse. Bears a false signature
John Constable oil Not by the hand of this artist. Formerly misattributed.
Marc Chagall gouache painting Illigitimate work with signature. Not by Chagall
Carl Rungius wilderness animalure oil Preliminary assessment completed / F investigation continuing
Raol Dufy For British Auctioneers Completed. Not a work by Raol Dufy
Jean-Michel Basquiat Oil Misdescribed at online auction – but sold with all faults or errors. Buyer beware!
Dutch oil Barn interior oil Pending stage 2 of a full investigation
Picasso La Pique 1. Not original, later offset lithograph presented as an original at auction
Fernand Leger Portrait femme Not Leger: Based on images of Nadia, bearing false museum and gallery labels verso
van Gogh Boats on the Beach of Saintes-Maries Far eastern copyist work but bears COA claiming originality
Monet Poplars series 1887 Commercial replication apre 1960. Acryllic canvas confirms
John Emms Hounds oil Follwer of
H. Matisse still life painting Bears signature & inconsistent with his style.
Murillo old master oil Copy of the Mater Dolorosa probably later 18C
Gustave Courbet attrib. oil painting Inconsistent with the hand
Paul Cezanne oil houses at Gardanne Not this village nor his hand. Follower of
Charles Blackman original figurative drawing Completed; Inoo Attributable to Charles Blackman
Rodchenko / signed Pagreako geometric work Poorer quality variant bears false signature
Andre Derain drawing Suspitious. Likely bearing false attelier stamp
Alonso Cano Old master oil Later copy of the original

Salvador Dali Oil

Completed preliminary. Not progressing

Edouard Cortes Paris Oil

Confirmed as not authentic bearing a signture
John Constable Scandinavian landscape bearing afalse signature
Corot Follower of Bearing signature
Juan Gris Completed
Cornelius Johnson or Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen Completed
Renoir Not by Renoir Bears false signature
Matisse drawing Bearing very questionable gallery labels probably re printed
J Turner Prelim completed
Berchem / Ruysdael  
Jan Van Der Heyden  
Remedios Varo Uranga - Mexican Completed: Variation of her theme of single figurative studies by another hand.
Matisse Complete bearing false signature
Juan Gris Completed: Bears falsified label verso.
Maurice Utrillo Copy
Old Master Virgin and Child Initial study completed. 17th Century Northern Italian celebrating the Madonna della Ghiara.
Turner oil Pending
Lakeland landscape Oil signed Atkinson Completed
Picasso watercolour Pending
Modigliani drawing Completed. Highly questionable provenance and references.
Matisse Litho Identified: Commercial Variant - La Fenêtre Ouverte a Nice”
Cezanne oil Pending waiting images and documentation
Renoir watercolour with provenance and in Cat raissone. Completed. Post dates artist creation. variant "Deux fillettes lisant" Identified blind stamp of  Marees-Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co. Therefore Posthumous reproduction inoo.
American sampler 1792 Complete client wrongly advised by American 'expert' . English design George III R  on Wool
British Sampler circa 1700 Completed: Fragment of whole, in poor condition
Picasso: La chèvre (The Goat) 1950 Bronze Completed. Smaller facsimile bearing signature. Posthumous commercial replica
Chagall  original oil, Post Hollocaust Completed in Sweden. Work not sttriubutable to Chagall inoo added sig
Mucha collection Completed. Questionable provenance. Client advised.

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1983) Untitled mixed media

Completed. No provenance, likely a fake work possibly produced by Alfredo Martinez.
Picasso print 1960 Identified: “Tête de femme” 'Pour Margaret Silberman, hommage de Picasso, le P er [premier] 12.60' Picasso Arts, Inc NYC. Commercial replication. Image also used on business cards and labels.
PIcasso Large portrait 'Olga'? Completed prelim. inoo not attributable to Picasso
Sebastiano Old master oil. Musicians Unlikely attributable. Possibly circle of Giovanni Lombardi EXECUTED at a later date.
Picasso oil 1970. Middle eastern clients  
J M W Turner attrib. Italian landscape water colour Probably originally misattributed and by a follower but with good provenance.

van Gogh peasant study

Prelim completed client advised. Ongoing
Joan Miro Completed prelim Ebay purchase, no provenance. Not attributable.
Claude Monet - Grand canal Venice oil Early Copy inoo.
Mario Carreno / Cuban Cancelled
John Sloan / American Completed inoo not attributable
Paul Cezanne Oil Landscape Completed inoo not attributable
Picasso sketch Completed. A follower of with indistinguishable signature
Paul Gauguin attrib. Woman in chair Completed inoo, not attributable
Chagall Self portrait at easel 1964 (auction) Completed: Inoo a fake bearing a false signature
Modiglianni Reclining nude oil Reproduction
Juan Gris: Drawing and wash, cafe scene signed GRIS Copy of an original Juan Gris drawing -  Coses del Viure. Of October 1912. Bears signature.
Churchill ? - Oil on canvas Completed artist identified as Frantz Charlet (Belgian 1862-1928) - Authenticated.
Portocarrero / Cuban Ebay misdescribed work but with seller get outs.
Italian genre work Completred. Follower of Morelli et al.,Sylvestro LegaRoma
Kandinsky - on paper, signed, bearing Ministerio de Cultura stamps, verso. Completed. Geometric fake, purchased from an internet site. Originating from Peru. Their Ministry hollogram stamps confirm works due for export are of no cultural interest or value to the nation.
Sir Joshua Reynolds Oil, Child with flower. Possibly attributable to William Beechey / circle
J M W Turner Oil Pompeii and Vesuvius, inscribed and initialed verso Completed; we believe not the hand of Turner and handwriting differfs.
Cezanne Mountain village and bridge, unsigned. Completed; Similar to Mont Sainte-Victoire series, but topographically inaccurate. Follower of.
Picasso painting. Completed: After Picasso, commercial offset: 1914 Compotier, verre, bouteille, fruits (Nature morte verte)
Picasso - pair of drawings Both commercial prints after Picasso: ‘La danse des faunes’ and Faune jouant de la diaule, nymphe au tambourin et centaure au poisson.
Edward Hopper, American Female oil portrait Post dates the artist. Follower of.
John Constable - Dedham Completed 20 C copy by a follower
le Pitre Picasso - Litho Cancelled by us.
Paul Gauguin- Martinique ? Completed. Not attributable to the artist inoo. Subject post dates the artist
Jules Paskin female nude on paper Follower of, bears a signature
Edward Mitchell Bannister Canadian/ American Landscape ( Auctioneer clients) Ongoing. Believed to be authentic. Awaiting instructions
Tunis Ponsen American Completed. Not attributable to Ponsen
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) Female portrait Complete: 19th century copy of a portrait of an old lady by Balthasar Denner 1685 – 1749 German.
Picasso Lithograph 1961 Espectadores Completed: Legitimate
Picasso etching Nestor's Tales of the Trojan War Completed. A ' collectible' postumously commercially printed by Collectors Guild, USA.
J M W Turner ? An oil on canvas monogrammed JW Misattributed to Turner of Oxford. A view of  façade of Greenwich Hospital as seen from the west. The old Greenwich waterfront around the Salutation Tavern and Garden Stairs. Comparable study of known works of the Hospital post dates architectually either artist.
Picasso signed pencil drawing Completed. Fake work from internet site.
Potential Renoir painting Venice, unsigned Completed. Ground post dates the artist
Osvaldo Licini painting Closed.
Monet oil Cancelled. A  print
Bettino Bustini - various abstract works. Abeyanced
Jean-Michel Basquiat - Industry colleague Waiting instruction
Marc Chagall- prelim study Unlikely provenance, facsimile work based upon La Mariée en Blue.
J M W Turner oil on canvas Bears false signature
Marc Chagall unsigned oil. Wrongly attibuted. Inoo, an emulator / follower of
John Constable small oil Completed. Not attributable to Constable, observable traces of another signature, bottom left
John Constable - View of the Stour Not attributable to Constable. Bears false signature reacting to UV.
J M W Turner - Dunbar Completed: Coloured lithograph, very likely commercial
Ivan Shishkin -  Oils Completed. An unsupportable attribution. Probably German school with added signature
Jean-Honoré Fragonard Completed. More modern canvas post dates the artist. Llkely added signature.
Joseph Israels Landscape with figure:   For US Auctioneers Completed.Almost Illegible signature. In the manner of by a follower.
James McNeill Whistler - 'Weary' drypoint etching. 20C Halftone bookplate lithographic variation of the original etching 1863
European school oil - For US Auctioneers Attributed to Janos Valentiny Hungarian. Gypsy boy musicians in a tavern
J M W Turner Sketch Stopped
Edouard Cortes 2 Ongoing.
Edouard Cortes. Oil - Parisian scene. For  CA  Auctioneers Bears false signature.  A secondary variation of Rue Royale, Place de la Concorde-Paris. After Edouard Cortes by another hand.
Old master attrib Rembrandt / Circle of Rembrandt

Completed: Either an unfortunate missatribution or poor attempt at forgery possibly taken from a reverse image of Rembrandt’s painting of Apostle Paul.

Let's settle for wrongly attributed in our opinion.

Matisse; Believed signed early work, for South American Legal clients

Completed. Area reacts to UV, applied pigment. inoo not attributable to Matisse
Toulouse Lautrec Poster Completed: Reproductions of the originals produced by by George J Goodstadt
Peter Max - Liberty series acryllic. Iladvised purchase on cruise. Abeyanced
Vermeer - Two studies Pending

 

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Inoo:  Is in our opinion

Pending; Awaiting final written instruction or contract.

No comment after 'Completed:'
Details of the investigation are confidential, litigation pending or privacy of information, privileged information or ethic of jurisprudence is being observed.


Dropped /Cancelled by us.

There are in our opinion, extenuating circumstances surrounding the work, its history or the current owner/s / instructees or representatives of the work which is or are not acceptable to us.


*Please note; We uphold our legal right to quit or refuse to give professional considerations to any client or comment upon a work of art that we consider may indicate an illegality or be harmful to our reputation or ethic.

Including by receipt of misinformation or deception of any kind. Thus we refuse to remain or become involved with the project henceforth.

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RUSSIAN ARTIST AUTHENTICATION INVESTIGATIONS: Oil paintings :

Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin - Владимир Евграфович Татлин
Varvara Stepanova  Варвара Фëдоровна Степанова
Ivan Puni  Иван Пуни
Alexandra Exter  - Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster / Александра Александровна Экстер

Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov  /  Михаи́л Фёдорович Ларио́нов
Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova Ната́лья Серге́евна Гончаро́ва
Lyubov Popova    Любо́вь Серге́евна Попо́ва

Picasso:

Picasso - Early portrail of a Spanish Woman in oils. Abeyanced.

2 separate instructions from legal clients into the authenticity of Picasso Works PAA's COMPLETED

Picasso Guenica study PAA COMPLETED

Picasso (USA  origins) Mere et infant 1922

Picasso (same image but Italian Origins) Mere et infant 1922

Picasso drawing: preparatory work and postscript to ‘Guernica’

Picasso - Corrida: plusieurs personages. Pen and wash drawing

Picasso mixed media drawing Pending.

2 Chagall Watercolours Pending

2 Drawings Pending

 

Brancusi carving /Marble

 

Completed: InOO Fake work with forged paperwork and provenance

Brancusi Bronze

Completed. InOO facsimile
Collection of around 180 paintings

Cancelled by Freemanart Middle Eastern Client

Old master

Copy of InOO

14 works. Stations of the cross.

Completed:  InOO 19th Century Copies.

17C Catalan painting


Completed. InOO Minor work

Medieval Cross

Completed. InOO Fake or replica.

18 C Dutch Old Master Portrait of a gentleman.

Completed

 

Completed InOO Student piece with fake signature

Vincent van Gogh oil

Completed; Attributed: In the manner of

Major collection of oils for a private Australian client.

Completed

JMW Turner. Initialled Landscape

Misattributed

James Webb Coastal landscape

Pending full investigation Cancelled

James Fetheroff.

 
Ludwig Knaus

Completed
Old master oil possible. circle of Teniers

Completed; Manner of

Maurycy Gottlieb

Completed

Ceramic signed Kandinski

Not

Bartolome Esteban Murillo. 

Completed  Old master Copy AFTER Murillo
Paul Klee Watercolour and mixed media

Pending full investigation Cancelled

 

 


Old Picasso Art Authentication Schedule

Authentication investigations of individual works by or after Pablo Picasso including:

 
Picasso sketch Jeunne Fille Completed
Pablo Picasso attrib. tette d'homme

Misattributed. Probably a later student work

Pablo Picasso mixed media Completed
Picasso A Ceramic design Completed. Misattributed
Picasso / Major 1902 watercolour Completed [Privacy Policy]
Picasso  / A major Dora Marr Work

Suspended - Corporate South American clients involved in criminal activity and fraud.

Pablo Picasso - Painting / Cubist oil

Picasso Cubist Drawing

Pablo Picasso : Painting- A variation of

Tette d'Homme 1972

Completed:: Illegitimate

Completed investigation. [Privacy Policy]

International investigation completed for legal  clients. [Privacy Policy]

Pablo Ruiz Picasso Drawing

Completed. identified as student work

Pablo Picasso: Tette d'Homme. Oil painting also dated 1972.

Completed: Illegitimate. A poor fake

Pablo Picasso: Spanish based

authentication investigation into a major oil painting - Subject Dora Maar -

Completed - FTB Illegitimate


Pablo Picasso: Drawings / A pair in pen and ink: Tette d'Homme  Cancelled by Freemanart due to highly questionable provenance and non disclosure of facts.

 

 

 

Our Strict Privacy Policy Precludes in some cases the disclosure of the results of our findings

 

 

We are very keen to learn more about any alleged fake provenance documents and or faked bogus paperwork presented in support of purchases and also relating to various attribution claims.

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In relation to current  investigations and complience with due diligence, please write to us if you have information on any of the following:

Derrick Hughes; Cornwall Artist 

Mr. Desi Duxbury and the Duxbury family papers in the UK

Information required by American D A Office

 

An expert called Sen. Fabrizio Di Castro, from Italy 

A Professor Dr. E. Jagers ?

And a Mr. Rasmus C. Olsen  ?

 

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