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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;User 67, post: 12595, member: 67&quot;]I would believe that everything you wrote in your opening would be of interest to a prints and drawing curator at the BMFA. Those folks authenticate work all the time and for many good reasons. These are public museums, even though they are owned by members. I would send an eMail to the P&amp;D department along with attachments of this and the sketchbook and ask if there is a time you could come in to show it to them and then follow up with a phone call if you don&#039;t hear from them.</p><p><br /></p><p>But they do discourage folks from bringing their crap in (if you have spent much time on the eBay boards, you know the level of crap that some dealers will want an opinion on, like a 1967 print on board of Rembrandt&#039;s <i>Man in a Gold Helmet</i>) So, no they don&#039;t advertize, but yes, if the curator is professional, he would look at the pieces. I do know that curators do feel used and abused by dealers who knock on their doors every week with a pile of what-not they got at the sales that weekend to see if it&#039;s worth anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>But when you are talking about the type of work the museum shows, or buys, they would be interested because 1) they might offer to buy it, 2) they might hope you will donate it, 3) they might hope you will loan it to them.</p><p><br /></p><p>If these are Gorky drawings, they would be interested. They also would have a library with tons of books you could go through to perhaps match a sketch in the book to one of the artist&#039;s known works, like a preliminary sketch or part of a series, that could help date and authenticate the sketchbook. And then there is always finger pints, (from the medium, not sherlock type) which if not smeared, are better than a siggy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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