Before any instrument is switched on, a work goes on the easel and is looked at. Andranik Ghazarian treats this stage as the one that shapes the whole examination: it decides which questions are worth asking and in what order.
Light is moved, the surface is read at an angle, the edges and the reverse are checked. None of this proves anything on its own. It builds the list of things that then have to be verified.
Art connects cultures, and the exchanges that shape it usually happen in rooms like this one: a conversation, a picture on the table, two people looking at the same object from two directions. This page belongs to a series recording the meetings of Andranik Ghazarian with figures from the international art world.
The easel stage
The visitors in the room are part of the method. A second and third pair of eyes, from different traditions and different markets, keeps a first impression from hardening into a conclusion.
What follows depends on what the easel stage produced: technical imaging, pigment analysis, archival research, or simply a condition report and a recommendation on storage and transport.
Fine Art International Switzerland AG (FINAIS) works 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 its founder and chief executive.
Andranik Ghazarian is the founder and CEO of Fine Art International Switzerland AG (FINAIS).
