Featured Thrift Find - Highwaymen H Baker painting + a Dali 'Omage to Omer'(?) A/P

Went to my favorite thrift store this morning and what did I find - the SAME Highwaymen painting by Hezikah Baker that I'd found there before but it was being sent to their other store in a higher end neighborhood!
I guess it didn't sell there or they didn't believe it was a Highwaymen painting & they sent it back - where I found iy again! That's karma!
Is this by Hezikiah Baker? The signature looks like 1 I saw online?

Also in the stack sent to the store was what looks like a original Salvidore Dali lithograph 'Homage to Homer' - but this one is a Artist Proof & has a COA on the back from Nouveau Artists in New York; which appears to be a legitimate gallery.
I know that Dali is one of the most copied artists - so is mine real or a copy? Is Nouveau Artists a legitimate company and/or is their COA a good one? (I noticed they misspelled Homage to Homer as Omage to Omar)?
And the ones I found online have more color (most - some looked like mine).

Did I hit a homerun today?

Thank you for any help!

 

Here is the back with the COA - any good?
Thank you!

 

To put it bluntly... A COA isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

Debora

 

A COA or this one? It is from a company in NY that seems to have been in business for awhile?
Is my Dali a copy/fake?

 

Any COA including this one. 99.9% likely a fake. Nouveau Galleries was in business between 1979 and 1992.

Debora

 

Im not any sort of expert here but think the Dalí print seems very faded. The cyan and black are usually the last colours to go.

 

There's a lot of these online. It's not "omage to omar", it's "Homage a Homere", a suite of prints.

You can compare size and whatnot to this example:
https://www.artbrokerage.com/Salvad...es-And-Helen-of-Troy-Suite-of-2-1977-AP-88432

I can't tell from the photos, but if the dimensions match, I think it's possibly real.

 

Thanks Houseful, I had no idea what this was supposed to look like.

 

Yes I noticed the colors & said I saw them but also saw some like mine - but I also thought it'd been in the sun/a sunny window too long.
Thank you.

 

I wouldn’t touch a Dali with an a.p. or h.c. with a ten foot pole.

 

https://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/book_report/dali-art-of-forgery-53400

 

Interesting article - I liked the part about work from an artist's studio would be overseen and have the artist's input, but the amount of actual work on it done by the artist themselves depended on the amount of commission the buyer was paying!

 

Thanks for all the information; I wasn't sure about the Dali's authenticity which is why I asked, but the 4 pieces I got - including the H. Baker - were inexpensive enough (under $150) that I don't think I'll lose money - and if push come to shove I like the Dali enough to keep it myself!

 

I typically stay far, far away from CoAs!

 

Your Highwaymen painting here got under-commented-on. I have no knowledge, but I'd love to hear what others think.

 

It got a lot of comments on a FB Highwaymen group:
Florida Highwaymen Paintings & Treasure Coast Sunrises | Facebook

 

Just read through a lot of that, was very interesting. I'd never even heard of his before ​

 

An exception to the COA being fake rule, or outright dismissal of them altogether is that many lower to mid level contemporary artist put them on their paintings. Have bought quite a few myself from various painters. The COA's will be relevent down the road if a said artist becomes collectable in the future.

 

Thank you for adding that information.

Debora