Among the most exquisite achievements of mankind, art, especially old paintings, can enrich your life, beautify the home or office, and gain impressive value while just hanging on the wall. This book examines art, especially valuable paintings. Not a coffee-table art book, but a book with information that will be priceless for those who apply the principles to be learned here. It will take years off your journey in becoming a successful art collector, investor, or dealer. Shortening the learning curve and turning your art apprenticeship into a profitable enterprise, this book will save you time and money. It will help you avoid costly mistakes while revealing how to create opportunities in art where none existed previously for you. Written for the new collector and investor, this book will be an invaluable reference guide for even the experienced dealer. You will find contact telephone numbers, Web sites, and trade information. Learn here the mind-set and game plan of the art collector, investor, and dealer because each has a different motivation, buying and selling strategy, and outcome objective. We will focus on the art dealer of old paintings. He is the professional who earns his living buying and selling art. We will examine his techniques, strategies, and business practices. Because the dealer buys, sells, and negotiates art transactions every day, he has more art know-how—more insider techniques up his sleeve, as it were—than either the collector or the investor. The collector and the investor need to learn what the dealer knows, acquiring the skills of the art dealer. This book aims to equip you with the parallel skills and abilities as those of the art dealer, so that you can buy and sell art for a profit.
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A must read for art investors, art museum directors, aspiring and developing collectors. -- Ted Weeks M.A. (I.F.A) Art Historian, Former Curator Birmingham Museum of Art (AL)
Take this book wherever you go. Refer to it before buying or selling a valuable painting. An excellent reference guide! -- Dr. Arnie Landsman, Conservator and Art Appraiser, ASA
We’re always looking but reluctant to buy art, until now. Your book is an outstanding guide for understanding art. -- Jeff Stephenson, Book Distributor, FedEx Kinko’s Stores
Take this book wherever you go. Refer to it before buying or selling a valuable painting. An excellent reference guide! -- Dr. Arnie Landsman, Conservator and Art Appraiser, ASA
We’re always looking but reluctant to buy art, until now. Your book is an outstanding guide for understanding art. -- Jeff Stephenson, Book Distributor, FedEx Kinko’s Stores
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Art is not only about aesthetics; it is also about economics, and this book is about how to make money investing in art. This book is your complete reference for finding, researching, appraising, buying, and selling valuable paintings. It is packed with Web sites, telephone numbers, and industry contacts. Whether you are a serious art collector, investor, or dealer, or a weekend hobbyist who goes to every garage sale in town, you will refer to this book again and again.
This book is educational. It’s entertaining. It’s a valuable investment guide. It has shown thousands of people how to make money investing in art. Wealthy people have always known this. Now the secrets are revealed for you.
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The Art Dealer's Field Guide is an invaluable reference book. I have dog-eared half the book for future reference. It is full of useful web-addresses, resources & experts. It is an extremely practical book & I found it to be a crash course on the business of art. I do not think this information is readily available to the general public. I have a degree in fine art, but would never have known where to begin the type of research that is described in the book. This is full of information that can only be learned through years of experience & is most likely kept an industry secret. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning how to invest in art.
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I don't usually write Amazon reviews. But this book annoyed me so much I felt compelled to spend the time and effort coming back to write a few brief words. This self-published book is for rank beginners only. It is poorly written, full of generalizations, truisms, flawed logic and "groan-out-loud-head-slapping" banal observations. If you have never set foot in a gallery nor bought a piece of art in your life, you may find it interesting. Anyone with even a modicum of experience would be well-served to look elsewhere. Alternatives I'd recommend include:
- The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art gives an excellent overview of the art business, including auctions, dealers and artists.
- Collecting Contemporary Art is a compilation of interviews with leading collectors of contemporary art who provide fascinating insights into collecting and dealing.
- Seven Days in the Art World dedicates each chapter to an "insider's" view of different art world sectors including dealers, auction houses, art fairs, magazines, etc.
- How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery is an incredibly thorough guide on that topic, some of which is relevant to those looking to become a secondary dealer.
- The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art gives an excellent overview of the art business, including auctions, dealers and artists.
- Collecting Contemporary Art is a compilation of interviews with leading collectors of contemporary art who provide fascinating insights into collecting and dealing.
- Seven Days in the Art World dedicates each chapter to an "insider's" view of different art world sectors including dealers, auction houses, art fairs, magazines, etc.
- How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery is an incredibly thorough guide on that topic, some of which is relevant to those looking to become a secondary dealer.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Well written, informative, and motivating. A how-to guide for those interested in buying, selling, and/or investing in art. Provides a broad range of resources. Fun and exciting to read!
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Among the most exquisite achievements of mankind, art, especially old paintings, can enrich your life, beautify the home or office, and gain impressive value while just hanging on the wall. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York City, Hudson River School, Edgar Payne, United States, Artprice Indicator, Old Master, John Leslie Breck, Thomas Moran, Barbizon School, Childe Hassam, East Coast, Hislop's Price Guide, Maine Antique Digest, Royal Academy, Winslow Homer, Yellow Pages, American Art Review, California Impressionist, Charles Sullivan, Explanation of Cataloguing Practice, Frederick Edwin Church, French Realism, Legal Documents, Mary Cassatt, Metropolitan Museum of Art New!
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Among the most exquisite achievements of mankind, art, especially old paintings, can enrich your life, beautify the home or office, and gain impressive value while just hanging on the wall. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York City, Hudson River School, Edgar Payne, United States, Artprice Indicator, Old Master, John Leslie Breck, Thomas Moran, Barbizon School, Childe Hassam, East Coast, Hislop's Price Guide, Maine Antique Digest, Royal Academy, Winslow Homer, Yellow Pages, American Art Review, California Impressionist, Charles Sullivan, Explanation of Cataloguing Practice, Frederick Edwin Church, French Realism, Legal Documents, Mary Cassatt, Metropolitan Museum of Art New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Thomas Moran by Nancy K. Anderson on page 21, page 37, and page 176
- The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation by Charles C. Hill in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Claude Monet by National Gallery of Art on page 186, and Back Matter
- The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics) by Adam Smith on page 25, and page 26
- Mark Rothko (Museum of Modern Art) by Peter Howard Selz on page 12
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