IS YOUR CERTIFICATE
OF AUTHENTICITY WORTH THE PAPER IT'S PRINTED ON? ArtBusiness.Com
writes: "A formal certificate of authenticity is not necessarily required
to prove that a work of art is genuine. Any valid receipt, bill of sale, or
proof of purchase from either the artist herself or a confirmed and established
dealer or agent of the artist will do."
WE ARE ALL EQUALLY UNKNOWN AT PAINPANG.COM.
The Painpang.com Print
Gallery is dedicated to the exhibition of artist-made prints created only
by unknown artists. Remember, you are buying from artists who are all equally
unknown as of this time. There are no established art authorities or references
that can help you determine the value of what you see at Painpang.com, because
the artists at Painpang.com are not known or established artists. Certificates
of authenticity are most commonly abused when people are led to believe they
are dealing with known artists who have an established market price. No one
at Painpang.com knows the value of the artworks presented here. And nor does
anyone else. So Painpang.com stongly suggests that you only buy artwork that
you appreciate, not because you expect it to appreciate in market value.
YOUR PERSONAL RECEIPT FROM YOUR ARTIST
IS YOUR CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY. All
serigraphs (or silkscreens) purchased on-line from the Painpang.com website
come with a receipt personally signed by the artist(s) responsible for the creation
of your particular poster-size serigraph artwork.
In other words, the receipt will be signed by whomever's signature(s) appears
on your final serigraph.
Painpang.com has required that
the artists participating in its on-line serigraph sales include on their receipt
to you both a black & white image of the original artwork image you selected
from Painpang.com's On-Line
Gallery and a color image of the digital photo of the final serigraph that
was approved by you through email, each clearly labeled as such. Your personal
receipt from your artist is your certificate of authenticity. It establishes
that you bought your particular art work from him or her for the listed price
and that it was indeed made by him or her.
• This receipt from your
artist(s) should be as valuable to you as any certificate of authenticity, and
probably even more so.
How so? As ArtBusiness.Com goes
on to write: "Certificates of authenticity are often problematic and some
can even be worthless. Many people believe that art with a COA (certificate
of authenticity) is automatically genuine, but that's not necessarily the case.
To begin with, no laws govern who is or is not qualified to write certificates
of authenticity, or what types of statements, information or documentation a
COA must include. In other words, anyone can write a COA whether they're qualified
or not. As if that's not bad enough, unscrupulous sellers can and do forge official
looking certificates of authenticity and use them to either sell outright fakes
or to misrepresent existing works of art as being more important or valuable
than they actually are. And to make matters even worse, meaningless COAs have
been issued for decades; a COA dated 1955, for example, can be just as meaningless
as one written today," (http://www.artbusiness.com/certaut.html).
