Caring for paper in India
Drawings, prints and watercolours survive heat well enough. What they do not survive is damp, sun and the wrong frame.
Guides
How to look, check, care, frame and inherit. Short, plain, and sourced.
Certificates, and what they mean
A certificate of authenticity is someone's opinion, written down. Who that someone is decides what it means.
How to visit a gallery
Galleries are free, quiet and slightly intimidating. Only the first two are meant.
Inheriting art
What to do in the first weeks, what the law in India asks of heirs, and how to find out what you have, in that order.
Moving art abroad
The plain rules for taking a work of art out of India: the 100-year line, the nine artists, and the paperwork customs may ask for.
Original or print?
How to tell a unique work, an original print and a reproduction apart, and what the pencil marks in the margin mean.
Reading the back of a painting
A step-by-step way to record what is on the reverse of a canvas or a framed work on paper, before anyone touches it.
Your first work
Buy what you'd still want on your wall in twenty years. The rest is homework.