Art Provenance Research

Listing 5,100 artists, with nearly 10,000 signatures, Castagno gives approximately 25% more information about artists' full names and birth and death dates than any other directory; lists nearly 1,000 artists overlooked by the American Art Annuals; and includes many important 19th-century artists and notable late 20th-century artists omitted in other indexed directories. With 600 listings of prominent Canadian and Latin American artists, and 900 listings of monograms, pseudonyms, symbols, etc.

Includes 5,200 signatures of 3,700 artists worldwide, listing nationality, birth and death dates, and reference sources.

Contains biographies including life dates, country of origin, brief biographical information, museums where exhibited, gallery exhibitions, signature samples for some, and prices realized at auction for some.

Lists more than 4,800 European and 400 Australian, South African, and Japanese artists who worked from 1800 to 1990, and offers 9,000 signature examples.

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Each entry includes, if applicable, nationality, birth and death dates, key letters to a listing of reference sources, and the most recent auction citings (if any) of the last twenty years. Nearly 4,800 artists and 9,000 signatures.

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Covers approximately 250 sales of Old Masters since 1980, with an average of five listings from each sale. There are 2,700 signature examples of 1,700 artists. Three sections following the main body of this volume offer the researcher easy cross-referencing--monograms and initials, symbols, and alternate names. The appendix includes supplemental signature information on additional artists whose actual signatures were not available, but whose importance could not be omitted.

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