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Most information requested is optional.
The information submitted may be reviewed for completeness, presentation, provenance, legal ownership, authenticity documentation, condition, and suitability for notification to Orpheus Alerts subscribers.

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Owner or Authorized Representative

Your relationship to the sculpture

Sculpture Identification

Type of sculpture
Subject or theme

Artist Attribution

Current attribution
Who made the current attribution?
Basis for the attribution
Is a written opinion, authentication, or attribution report available?
Has the attribution changed at any time?
Has any recognized authority declined, rejected, qualified, or questioned the attribution?
Are there conflicting opinions concerning the artist, date, foundry, fabrication, edition, or authenticity?

Signature, Inscriptions, Marks, and Labels

Is the sculpture signed or monogrammed?
How was the signature applied?
Is the sculpture dated?
Is the signature believed to be original and authorized by the artist?
Has the signature been authenticated?
Has the signature been added, strengthened, altered, restored, obscured, or partially removed?
Are any marks, labels, plaques, inscriptions, or numbers damaged, incomplete, removed, replaced, or believed to be later additions?

Edition, Cast, and Fabrication Information

Is the sculpture:
Are editions known in other sizes, materials, colours, finishes, or configurations?
Is the cast or fabrication date confirmed?
Is the foundry or fabricator still operating?
Are foundry records, fabrication records, invoices, mould records, certificates, or correspondence available?
Are the original moulds, models, patterns, or digital files known to survive?
Have additional casts or versions been made outside the stated edition?
Is this example recorded in an edition registry, artist’s archive, estate inventory, foundry register, or catalogue raisonné?

Catalogue Raisonné and Reference Information

Is the sculpture included in a catalogue raisonné?
Does the catalogue entry agree with the current sculpture’s title, date, material, dimensions, edition, foundry, and provenance?
Has the sculpture been submitted to an artist’s foundation, estate, archive, authentication board, catalogue raisonné committee, or other recognized authority?
Is written confirmation available?

Materials and Construction

Primary material
Construction or production method
Is the sculpture solid, hollow, or partially hollow?
Are all components original?

Surface, Patina, Colour, and Finish

Surface treatment
Is the patina, paint, gilding, glaze, plating, or finish believed to be original?
Was the surface applied or approved by the artist?
Has the surface been cleaned, polished, repatinated, painted, recoated, waxed, stripped, or otherwise altered?
Are there natural variations in colour, texture, casting, carving, grain, inclusions, oxidation, or finish?

Measurements, Weight, and Components

Unit of measurement
Weight unit
Are the measurements and weights exact or approximate?
Have the sculpture’s dimensions, shape, configuration, or number of components ever changed?

Base, Pedestal, Mount, and Installation

Does the sculpture include a base, pedestal, plinth, mount, frame, stand, support, foundation, or display case?
Is the base or mount:
Is the base permanently attached?
Can the sculpture be safely removed from the base?
Are installation drawings or instructions available?
Are special foundations, anchors, bolts, brackets, lifting points, electrical connections, water connections, drainage, lighting, or environmental controls required?
Is professional engineering approval required for installation?
Is the sculpture intended for:
Are all installation hardware and components included?

Description and Artistic Context

Describe the sculpture’s form, subject, composition, pose, scale, texture, colour, construction, spatial relationships, and distinguishing features.

Is the sculpture part of a series, pair, group, installation, monument, or larger project?
Are drawings, maquettes, models, photographs, digital files, preparatory works, or other versions known?

List comparable examples held by museums, institutions, published collections, galleries, auction houses, or recognized private collections.

Provenance and Ownership History

How did the sculpture leave the artist’s possession?

For each owner or custodian, provide full name, city and country, collection name, date acquired, date transferred, method of acquisition, dealer/gallery/auction house/estate/other source, and supporting documentation.

Has the sculpture belonged to a notable person, family, artist, collector, dealer, gallery, museum, institution, corporation, foundation, or public collection?
Has the sculpture remained in the same family, collection, institution, or location for an extended period?
Are there any gaps in the known ownership history?
Was the sculpture in Europe during the period 1933–1945?
Has the sculpture previously been offered for sale?

Include date offered, dealer/gallery/auction house, sale title, catalogue or lot number, published attribution and description, estimate, reserve if applicable, sale result, buyer if known, and reason withdrawn or unsold if applicable.

Provenance Documentation

Please indicate all documentation available.
Are the title, artist, date, materials, dimensions, edition number, foundry, signature, marks, photographs, and descriptions consistent across the documentation?
Are original documents available, or only copies?
May the provenance documents be reviewed confidentially?

Exhibition and Publication History

Has the sculpture been exhibited publicly?

Include exhibition title, museum/gallery/institution/art fair/venue, city and country, opening and closing dates, curator, catalogue title, catalogue/object number, page/illustration number, and published title/date/material/dimensions/edition/attribution.

Has the sculpture been installed or displayed in a public place?
Has the sculpture been loaned to a museum, gallery, government building, embassy, foundation, corporation, or institution?
Has the sculpture been published or reproduced?

Include author, publication title, article or chapter title, publisher, publication date, volume and issue, page number, figure or plate number, published title, published attribution, published edition information, and published ownership or collection.

Has the sculpture appeared in:

Condition

Overall condition
Is the sculpture complete?
Known condition issues

Describe every crack, chip, break, loss, stain, repair, replacement, alteration, structural concern, and area of instability.

Are any components detached or stored separately?
Are original fragments or replaced components retained?
Is the sculpture structurally stable?
Can the sculpture be safely moved in its present condition?
Has the condition changed while in your ownership?
Has the sculpture been exposed to unsuitable humidity, temperature, sunlight, water, salt air, pollution, fire, pests, vibration, impact, or other damaging conditions?

Conservation, Restoration, and Alterations

Has the sculpture been cleaned, repaired, restored, reconstructed, repatinated, refinished, repainted, reassembled, or otherwise treated?
Known treatment
Was the treatment authorized or approved by the artist or artist’s estate?
Is a conservation or restoration report available?
Are before-and-after photographs available?
Are removed materials, fragments, original fasteners, bases, mounts, or other components retained?
Are there suspected but unconfirmed repairs, restorations, replacements, or alterations?

Technical Examination and Scientific Testing

Has the sculpture undergone technical or scientific examination?
Types of examination performed
Did the examination identify:
Are the technical findings consistent with the proposed artist, date, foundry, material, and edition?
Is the complete technical report available?

Authenticity and Expert Opinions

Has the sculpture been physically examined by a recognized specialist?
Was the opinion based on:
Is a signed written opinion or certificate available?
Can the opinion or certificate be verified with its issuer?
Has the sculpture been reviewed by the artist, artist’s estate, foundation, archive, authentication committee, catalogue raisonné committee, foundry, or fabricator?
Has any authority refused to issue an opinion or certificate?
Has any authority determined that the sculpture is unauthorized, outside the stated edition, incorrectly dated, not authentic, or not by the proposed artist?
Are there contradictory certificates, reports, or opinions?

Rarity and Artistic Importance

Is the sculpture considered rare or historically important?
Basis for the claimed rarity or importance

Legal Ownership and Compliance

Do you confirm that you legally own the sculpture or are legally authorized to act for its owner?
Is the sculpture free of liens, loans, leases, security interests, competing claims, or other encumbrances?
Has the sculpture ever been reported lost, stolen, looted, unlawfully removed, misappropriated, or illegally exported or imported?
Has the sculpture been checked against lost-or-stolen art databases?
Has the sculpture been checked against the Art Loss Register?
Is the sculpture subject to any ownership dispute, estate claim, restitution claim, repatriation request, government claim, museum claim, Indigenous claim, public-art claim, intellectual-property claim, or other legal claim?
Was the sculpture formerly installed on public, municipal, institutional, religious, memorial, architectural, or communal property?
If yes, is lawful deaccession, removal, sale, transfer, or disposal documentation available?
Are there restrictions on ownership, possession, removal, installation, display, reproduction, advertising, transfer, export, import, or sale?
Was the sculpture legally exported from every country in which it was previously located?
Are export licences available where required?
Was the sculpture legally imported into its current country?
Are import and customs documents available where required?
Does the sculpture, base, mount, decoration, or other component contain or possibly contain:
Is any part of the sculpture subject to CITES or another protected-species restriction?
Has the sculpture been reviewed for compliance with applicable ownership, cultural-property, copyright, export, import, sanctions, public-art, and protected-species laws?

Copyright, Reproduction, and Moral Rights

Is the sculpture still protected by copyright?
Are copyright records or agreements available?
Does ownership of the sculpture include any copyright, reproduction, casting, fabrication, digital scanning, publication, licensing, or merchandising rights?
Are there restrictions on photographing, publishing, advertising, reproducing, copying, scanning, casting, fabricating, relocating, altering, or displaying the sculpture?
Is artist resale right or droit de suite applicable to a future sale?
Could removal, relocation, restoration, alteration, or destruction affect the artist’s moral rights?
Are there known moral-rights, commission, installation, site-specific, licensing, loan, or contractual restrictions?

Collections, Installations, and Groups

Complete this section when submitting more than one sculpture or a multi-part installation.

Is an itemized inventory available?
Does the inventory provide for each sculpture:
Are individual condition reports available?
Are individual provenance files available?
Are certificates and documents matched to the correct sculptures?
Are all components of the installation present?
Are installation plans and instructions available?

Sale Information

Does the asking price apply to:
Are the base, pedestal, mount, installation hardware, documentation, copyright, maquettes, preparatory works, drawings, digital files, correspondence, moulds, or other materials included?
Is a written appraisal or valuation available?
Has the sculpture been insured?
Are there taxes, artist resale royalties, commissions, storage charges, liens, deinstallation expenses, transport costs, engineering requirements, or other costs that may affect a sale?

Photographs and Supporting Materials

Please provide clear, recent, unedited colour photographs, including complete front/back/left/right/three-quarter/top/bottom views; base and mounting points; sculpture with complete base/pedestal/stand; signature or monogram; edition number; foundry/fabricator mark; date, inscription, copyright mark and inventory number; every label, plaque, stamp, seal or identifying mark; principal subject; surface texture, carving, modelling, casting, fabrication, welds, joins, tool marks and finish; patina, paint, gilding, glaze or other surface treatment; every crack, chip, break, loss, stain, corrosion, repair, replacement, restoration or alteration; interior, armature or hollow areas where safely visible; every separate component; installation hardware and attachment points; an indication of scale; available certificates/reports/invoices/provenance documents; current overall condition; and current installation or display setting.

Are all submitted photographs recent and unedited?
Have any photographs been cropped, enhanced, retouched, colour-adjusted, filtered, digitally reconstructed, or otherwise altered?
Do the submitted images accurately represent the sculpture’s current colour, patina, finish, components, and condition?

Upload relevant purchase and artist records; commission agreements and correspondence; dealer/gallery and auction records; studio/estate/foundry/fabricator records; edition and authenticity certificates; catalogue raisonné references and expert opinions; provenance and collection records; old photographs; museum, exhibition and publication records; installation plans/instructions; engineering/structural reports; conservation/restoration and technical/scientific reports; before-and-after restoration photographs; appraisals or valuations; insurance and estate documents; copyright records; export/import/customs documentation; restitution and wartime-provenance research; lost-or-stolen and Art Loss Register results; legal opinions; and other relevant documents.

Identify each submitted item and explain any missing images, sensitive information, inconsistent descriptions, conflicting opinions, or documentation gaps.

Additional Information

Declaration

By submitting this form, I confirm that:
  • I am the lawful owner of the item or am properly authorized to act for its lawful owner.
  • The information supplied is complete and accurate to the best of my knowledge.
  • I have not knowingly omitted any material information.
  • I have disclosed all known provenance gaps, ownership questions, authenticity concerns, reproduction parts, alterations, repairs, restorations, condition issues, legal restrictions, hazardous materials, protected materials, intellectual-property concerns, and other relevant facts.
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