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Protect Your High-Net-Worth Buyers From Art Ripoffs

Art fraud is at an all-time high. Learn from a producer of "Antiques Roadshow" how an art advisor can help protect your clients.

By Dan Farrell | Updated on January 16, 2013

By Daniel Farrell, consultant, Enservio

Affluent individuals seem to be favoring art as an important “asset class” right now. A Picasso painting recently sold for $106 million, a Rothko for $89 million, a Lichtenstein for $43 million–and even Warhol prints (not paintings) have sold for upward of $500,000. Antiques Roadshow regularly turns up artworks and antiques worth hundreds of thousands of dollars that were inherited from grandparents or bought at yard sales. 

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