Andranik Ghazarian — art expert and appraiser

Andranik Ghazarian is the founder and chief executive of Fine Art International Switzerland AG (FINAIS), an international fine-art laboratory working with collectors, institutions and art professionals. Its work combines scientific examination, art-historical research, condition assessment and documentation, together with the coordination of restoration, storage and transport.

Andranik Ghazarian is the founder and chief executive of Fine Art International Switzerland AG (FINAIS), an international fine-art laboratory in Switzerland. Its clients are collectors, institutions and art professionals, and its work begins where most opinions stop: in front of the object, with instruments, archives and a written record.

“Art connects cultures — and the exchanges that shape it happen in front of the object.”

What Andranik Ghazarian works on

The practice of FINAIS combines scientific examination, art-historical research, condition assessment and documentation, together with the coordination of restoration, storage and transport. These four strands are deliberately kept under one roof: a technical result without art-historical context is mute, and research without material evidence cannot be verified.

Dialogue with the art world

Alongside the laboratory work, Andranik Ghazarian maintains a continuous exchange with the people who shape how artworks are understood. He has received, among others, the French art historian, critic and curator Philippe Piguet; the actor, painter and collector Federico Castelluccio with Yvonne Maria Schäfer; the Paris lawyer Michel Godest, long-standing counsel to Jean-Paul Belmondo; the art historian and Modigliani specialist Christian Parisot; the gallerist and curator Zhao Lei; the art expert Dimitri Nakov; Sheikh Rachid from Saudi Arabia with Sergey Simonyan from Armenia; and Dr Maha Abdulhalim Radwi of the University of Jeddah with her team.

Works from the FINAIS Collection have also travelled: the exhibition “Romance & Starlight” in Guizhou, China, presented pieces from the collection to a Chinese public.

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