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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Debora, post: 5867995, member: 1476&quot;]<font size="4">From the internet:</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3"><i>&quot;Merrill Chase galleries made a big business on contemporary starving artists. They were US based but sourced most of their artwork from painters throughout Europe. They added these somewhat dubious Authenticity papers to the paintings... </i></font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3"><i>On numerous occasion, the signatures on the paintings were fictitious names, but ones similar enough to a famous name. Again, a dubious practice.</i></font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3"><i>Most people bought works from this gallery in hopes of speculating that one or most would become the next van Gogh or Picasso and that their investment would pay off. A few prolific Paris scene painters have garnered numbers up to $10,000 but the majority of works, of which they imported tens of thousands achieve decorative wall art prices at auctions and sales.&quot;</i></font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="https://www.justanswer.com/appraisals/br6so-in-laws-deceased-bought-painting-merrill.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.justanswer.com/appraisals/br6so-in-laws-deceased-bought-painting-merrill.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.justanswer.com/appraisals/br6so-in-laws-deceased-bought-painting-merrill.html</a></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">Debora</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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