Any chance of uploading the hobnob pics?

This is about the first piece of art I ever bought. Good dealer in Paris, many years ago.
Etching from around 1971.

That's the one! Very nice

Where would be a safe place to look for one? Are galleries a safe bet any more?

Bruce is a smooth operator. I agree about paying high prices via Bruce and I wonder about the Dali print price guide catalogues being publiched by Bruce considering he also sells Dali prints. Optimistic values ? He sells those Dali print price guides as well as Dali prints

Does he use a phone sales team to get people to buy at premium prices?

Apparently Bruce is quite pally with Robert Descharnes who authenticates Dali drawings and altho not recognised by the Dali Foundation in Spain and has no actual rights to Dali copyright and is not related to Dali, is recognised by Sotheby's and other major auction houses. Even though some have disputed his expertise in this field. I heard a few stories about Robert Descharnes.

Captain Peter Moore another old rogue assosciated with Dali. www.theguardian.com/world/1999/apr/29/1

Albert Fields was the honest one and worked on the catalogue raisonnée for Dali prints to prevent fake sbeing sold. Also Fields was not a dealer or involved in selling Dali's unlike the others who give expertise and at the same time sell Dali prints and sometimes originals. Frank Hunter (Fields successor) would be the person to trust regarding authentication.

Hochman and Ewell had at least one court battle and litigation regarding their opinions of each other and Dali has brought out the worst in people, when he was alive and even today, and through no fault of his own.

If you get a chance to watch this documentary by Ian Gibson it will certainly make on realise what type of people are motivated by greed and money.

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fame-and-shame-and-salavador-dali-1236618.html

www.tv.com/shows/omnibus-uk/the-fame-and-shame-of-salvador-dali-part-1-1184459/

An easy way to see if investing in Dali prints is a way to go.

Contact some of the more well known auction houses and ask them if they would auction a Dali print for you. If you walked in their door with one. If they respond by saying we are not taking in any Dali prints. They are either hard to sell at auction or auction houses are wary of fakes.


Here are a couple of articles.

observer.com/2011/10/man-claims-dali-society-cheated-him-out-of-money/

Here is Hochmans Dali newsletter. It's entertaining if nothing else.

nonreligiousweddings.com/ejcampfield/pdf/DaliNewsletter5-12.pdf

Galerie Michael in Beverly Hills are Dali experts, and have been very helpful advising a couple of friends with their purchases (from other galleries even!). As folks have mentioned, authentication is key and worth the premium in the long run.

This thread made me go back and look at a Dali print called Lenin Tiger that I've had rolled up in a tube for the past 20 years. I was a little kid when I purchased it as my first piece of art (I remember paying ~$1000 for it). I must have known something was off, or it would be framed now, but tonight I unrolled it, referred to one of the links posted here and since it has the Arches watermark with the infinity symbol, it's a fake. I think I should track the guy who sold it to me and signed the COA down and see what he has to say about it all these years later. Google says that these days he works as the senior vice president of investments at a bank in Florida.

 Considering the lots of money people are happy to pay for framing prints with top notch quality frames museum glass float mounting etc etc. The 500 bucks for an Albert Field catalogue is not a lot of money compared to teh amount someone could pay for a print.

I'd imagine that Albert Fields work and catalogue is copyrighted. He spent decades working on it.

 This is a real beauty in the flesh! Best viewed with a nice cuppa and some hobnobs  

Galerie Michael are helpful and trustworthy gallery. However, their pricing is over the top. They re selling pronts for $15k that are worth no more than $600. Different definition of crooks.

Stay away from Park west, their biggest scandal was about the cruises and the rembrandt plates they bought and reprinted and sold as OG.

When it comes to Dali, you want to make sure whichever print you purchase has been authenticated by either Albert Field, Nicolas Descharnes, Frank Hunter or Bruce Hochman.

An Authenticated Dali will have the signature of one of the above on the verso of the print and the date of the authentication. They will issue a certificate of authentication to accompany the artwork as well.

Never purchase a Dali without one of the above authentications, otherwise the artwork is likely in-correct. This only applies to Dali Prints, not Dali Sculpture or Wall Reliefs published by Martin Lawrence.

At GallArt.com, we have over 100 Dali's in stock and on display in our 8,000 Square foot gallery located in Aventura, FL. Every Dali we have in stock has been authenticated by Albert Field, Descharnes, Frank Hunter or Bruce Hochman and comes with a GallArt.com COA and the Authentication Documentation. Plus every work sold via GallArt.com, is backed with our Lifetime Exchange Policy. At Any point in time exchange your Dali towards any work in stock for exactly what you paid.

Check out our complete Dali Collection!

Disregard listed prices, all inquires will be considered.

Listed below are photos of the authentication signatures your looking for!

So, you mean to say that deepfakes can be used for stuff other than porn?

Deepfakes are truly terrifying but the way they utilize it here is awesome!

I want to like it, and not feel cynical. This fits into a similar category of trying to put Jimi Hendrix and or others back on stage in the form of holograms. If I was there in person then I might feel different. I think Dali probably would like it, but I think if he were involved it wouldn't be so stiff, I'm sure it would be weirder.

BBC 2 Mon, 21:00

The $50m Art Swindle

Documentary telling the remarkable story of a charlatan art dealer who swindled more than $50million from the art establishment before going on the run. Michel Cohen, a popular and charming New York art dealer originally from France, was a high-school drop-out from a poor background who went on to become a rich and successful art dealer. Throughout the 1990s, he sold paintings by artists such as Picasso, Monet and Chagall to America's wealthiest elite. Cohen was living the high life until he began trading recklessly in the stock market and ran up considerable debts. In an attempt to recoup his losses, he swindled private collectors, auction houses and other art dealers out of more than $50million. When his crimes were discovered, he fled the US with his wife and two children and went on the run. In 2003, he was found by Interpol in Brazil and was imprisoned in Rio de Janeiro, but seven months later while awaiting extradition to the US, he escaped from prison and vanished off the face of the earth. Sixteen years later, film-maker Vanessa Engle tracks him down and persuades him to tell his extraordinary story