The Freemanart Consultancy, now nearing its fiftieth anniversary, has five decades of international experience in undertaking fine art authentication investigations and specialist research. We stand as unrivalled experts in this highly specialised field, confidentially serving both private individuals and corporate clients worldwide. We conduct comprehensive international investigations into confirming artist attributions, and into the authenticity and legitimacy of fine art across all periods of art history, including all artists and genres.

The Essential First Step in the Authentication process is the Preliminary Viability Assessment.

La evaluación previa a la autenticación

Before committing to much greater, in-depth, specialised research, or having a full authentication or attribution investigation undertaken, we seriously advise our clients that a professional, totally impartial, and unbiased preliminary viability assessment is conducted on the work of art in question, by us for you first.

This crucial first step in the authentication process aims to help you understand the genuine prospects of success in the final analysis, by identifying any potential pitfalls that your work of art may possess, or serious issues that could lead to an unsuccessful conclusion, or failure in the longer term.

Treat this discreet, professional assessment as your personal safety net, saving you time, money, and the heartache that disappointment brings if the chances of obtaining a well-proven, fully established, and internationally accepted certification of your work of art are limited or is highly unlikely.

We are happy to assess any works that you already own, inherited works, or even those you are considering purchasing, be that privately, online, or at auction. Most importantly, we can also help alleviate any concerns you may have regarding works of art that are being offered for sale and appearing on online auction platforms, where descriptions of paintings and other works of art can often be ambiguous, sometimes even misleading; so we also confidently advise clients before they commit to bid.

The final outcome of this wide-ranging study is provided to you in a fully comprehensive and extensive written report, not just in a curt email answer. This vital primary professional service is offered for a modest set fee, as is covered and detailed extensively in our FAQ section.

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About The Freemanart Consultancy - Our Core Services

While the duration, scale and direction of any art authenticity or attribution investigation will inevitably vary from case to case, we provide clear, and well-defined professional services to assist you, including:

Appraisals: We can provide comprehensive appraisals and valuations for a variety of purposes, including private sale, purchase, or insurance coverage. Beyond valuation, our expert services include thorough on-site quality and condition assessments, accompanied by detailed reports to give you a complete overview of a work's physical state and market standing.

Our Esteemed Clients

The Freemanart Consultancy is proud to serve and have served a wide and diverse client base. Including private individuals from all walks of life and corporate entities from a vast array of professions across the world.

This naturally extends to esteemed colleagues within the fine art and legal fraternities that our services are available to, including:

• Law firms, solicitors, and barristers worldwide

• Auctioneers. Both land based and those using online platforms

• National, Regional, Municipal, and Corporate Art Galleries

• Public and Privately Curated Collections and Museums

• Law Enforcement Agencies

• Insurance Companies and Loss Adjusters

• Fine Art Dealers

• Individual private art collectors and sellers globally

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Note: Our private clients' identities remain strictly confidential and secure and are never disclosed. This is in accordance with our clearly defined Privacy Policy, guaranteeing we will never share any private or privileged information with a third party unless legally required to do so.

*Prospective clients should respect that non-disclosure, client confidentiality, and our sound ethical base prevent us from disclosing the names of any private clients, or the nature, form, and subject of their individual cases in depth.

ENSURING  THE  CORRECT  FINE  ART  CERTIFICATION:

Our stance at The Freemanart Consultancy is ensuring that, in the final analysis, we secure the correct and legitimate fine art certification for your work of art. This is paramount for establishing the true identity of your work's original creator, and for supporting and maintaining the real market value of any significant work of art.

Such a definitive and internationally recognised validation is ideally provided by individuals or institutions that hold unquestioned, fully proven authority,such as the artist's estate trustees, official authentication boards, recognised museum and academic scholars, catalogue raisonné compilers, or those who hold the artist's legal and intellectual rights.

However, where an official catalogue raisonné author or definitive expert authority is deceased or no longer exists, we do not hit a dead end. Instead, we draw upon alternative qualified expert sources, peer scholarly consensus, and rigorous corroborating evidence to achieve the strongest possible collective agreement and backing for our attribution.

Unlike the opinions of individuals who do not hold that level of accreditation—many of whom provide unsupportable documentation that is far too often readily supplied on internet-based sales platforms and auctions, a genuinely correct certification of a work of art's authenticity is built upon rigorous international academic archival research and investigation, alongside potential forensic analysis.

Once such an investigation is completed, it is consolidated into a watertight case before its presentation for final adjudication and ultimate certification.

This provides a safe, reliable, and unchallengeable foundation for your work of art, which is critical when considering matters such as future sale, insurance, estate planning, future family distribution, and maintaining international scholarly recognition by all institutions, major auctioneers, and insurers alike from across the world.

We urge great caution against accepting the validity of Certificates of Authenticity (COA's) not originating from recognised expert

authorities or supported by rigorous, verifiable evidence.

 

Our purpose is to meticulously prepare and present your case to the ultimate recognised authority or, where none exists, the highest possible body of scholarly agreement. This dedication ensures that any confirmation of authenticity or artist attribution achieved through our investigative process is robustly supported, fully justified, and internationally defensible, providing you with complete peace of mind. Frankly, we accept nothing less than providing this ultimate standard of service excellence.

There is no half measure in our work ethic, and you would not expect less of a professional consultancy.

Featured Artists

At the very bottom of this page are links to the names of individual artists with dedicated pages on this website that you can go directly to. These are artists that we have conducted investigations into works by, or claiming to be by, in the five decades we have been working in this highly specialised expert field.

Below are listed just some of the artists whose names appear most regularly on our art authenticity and particularly on our fake identification investigation schedule, set out in no particular order:

Pablo Picasso - John Constable - Winston Churchill  - Marc Chagall - Manet - Monet - J.M.W. Turner, - Jean-Michel Basquiat - Henri Matisse - Renoir - Corot - Rembrandt - Joan Miro - Cezanne - Morisot - and Modigliani.

Followed closely by: Diego Rivera - Frida Kahlo - Rufino Tamayo, and many other Latin American and North American artists, alongside major Indian and Asian artists, plus a large number of wrongly attributed Old and Modern Masters and European Portraitists.

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Bienvenue / Bienvenidos

Français: Avant d'entreprendre une enquête sur l'authenticité d'une œuvre d'art ou son attribution à un artiste, il est plus que prudent de procéder à une évaluation impartiale de sa faisabilité. Cette étude est réalisée pour évaluer objectivement les éventuels aspects négatifs par rapport aux éléments positifs. Nous sommes heureux d'entreprendre cette étude pour vous de manière professionnelle, la considérant comme votre principal filet de sécurité. Elle sera basée sur les informations que vous nous fournissez (y compris les images si elles sont demandées ultérieurement) et tous les faits connus concernant votre acquisition, son historique et la provenance de l'œuvre telle que vous la connaissez. Vous aurez ainsi une meilleure compréhension des perspectives et des éventuelles difficultés à venir, avant de prendre toute décision.

Español: Antes de embarcarse en cualquier investigación sobre la autenticidad de una obra de arte o la atribución a un artista, es más que prudente realizar primero una evaluación imparcial de su viabilidad. Esto se hace para sopesar objetivamente cualquier aspecto negativo frente a los positivos. Estaremos encantados de llevar a cabo este estudio para usted de manera profesional, considerándolo su principal red de seguridad. Se basará en la información que nos proporcione (incluidas las imágenes si se solicitan posteriormente) y en todos los hechos conocidos con respecto a su adquisición, su historial y la procedencia de la obra tal como la conoce. Así, tendrá una mejor comprensión de las perspectivas y las posibles dificultades futuras, antes de tomar una decisión.

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