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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pat P, post: 10886, member: 201&quot;]Does anyone know the best way to get original drawings authenticated? I have a stand-alone drawing and two interesting artist&#039;s sketchbooks that I found among my mother&#039;s things that I&#039;d like to sell.</p><p><br /></p><p>The drawing should be easier to authenticate. It&#039;s signed &quot;Schary&quot; and the signature is very much like those of Saul Schary that I&#039;ve seen on the web. In addition, his wife had a high-level position in a nonprofit that was providing help to the countries mentioned on the drawing, Uganda and Sierrra Leone. It&#039;s been a while since I looked it up, but if I remember correctly, her organization was trying to help women in third world countries.</p><p><br /></p><p>The sketchbooks are going to be trickier. They include different styles of work, and I believe include either original work by what looks like several different artists or were done by an exceptionally gifted student emulating those artists&#039; work. Two of the artists whose work they resemble are Raphael Soyer and Arshile Gorky.</p><p><br /></p><p>What&#039;s interesting is that Schary, Soyer, and Gorky were all friends and two or all three of these artists had summer homes in the area of Connecticut where my mother would visit my aunt and uncle every summer. During her visits my mother always went antiquing, so it&#039;s quite possible that she purchased these items during one of those visits. The drawing and the sketchbooks were stored together, so it&#039;s also possible they were purchased at the same time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, at least one of the sketchbooks was originally sold by an art store located very close to where Gorky lived in Manhattan and where Soyer had an art studio.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any suggestions on who to contact about these items? Since I&#039;m only about an hour from Boston&#039;s Museum of Fine Arts, would it make sense to get their opinion?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the drawing...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.lehmanparker.com/images/shared/schary01a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.lehmanparker.com/images/shared/schary01b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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