Product Description

Among the most exquisite achievements of mankind, art, especially old paintings, can enrich your life, beautify the home or office, and gain impressive value while just hanging on the wall. This book examines art, especially valuable paintings. Not a coffee-table art book, but a book with information that will be priceless for those who apply the principles to be learned here. It will take years off your journey in becoming a successful art collector, investor, or dealer. Shortening the learning curve and turning your art apprenticeship into a profitable enterprise, this book will save you time and money. It will help you avoid costly mistakes while revealing how to create opportunities in art where none existed previously for you. Written for the new collector and investor, this book will be an invaluable reference guide for even the experienced dealer. You will find contact telephone numbers, Web sites, and trade information. Learn here the mind-set and game plan of the art collector, investor, and dealer because each has a different motivation, buying and selling strategy, and outcome objective. We will focus on the art dealer of old paintings. He is the professional who earns his living buying and selling art. We will examine his techniques, strategies, and business practices. Because the dealer buys, sells, and negotiates art transactions every day, he has more art know-how—more insider techniques up his sleeve, as it were—than either the collector or the investor. The collector and the investor need to learn what the dealer knows, acquiring the skills of the art dealer. This book aims to equip you with the parallel skills and abilities as those of the art dealer, so that you can buy and sell art for a profit.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #141894 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Ted Weeks M.A. (I.F.A) Art Historian, Former Curator Birmingham Museum of Art (AL)
A must read for art investors, art museum directors, aspiring and developing collectors.

Dr. Arnie Landsman, Conservator and Art Appraiser, ASA
Take this book wherever you go. Refer to it before buying or selling a valuable painting. An excellent reference guide!

Jeff Stephenson, Book Distributor, FedEx Kinko’s Stores
We're always looking but reluctant to buy art, until now. Your book is an outstanding guide for understanding art.

Customer Reviews

Art Dealer's Field Guide by Ron Davis
Art Dealer's Field Guide is the only book on the market that teaches the "art" of making money in the art world. Ron Davis generously shares his many secrets gleaned from a lifetime dealing in art. A must read for novice and expert alike.

I'm so happy I found this book!
I'm new to the field and had no idea where to turn for advice. Thank you for writing this!

Excellent and Informative
Ron Davis' book was exactly what I was looking for as a new dealer/collector just getting into the art world. It provided me with an abundant amount of information to get me started with my quest to develop the skills I desire to make educated transactions. It think as a beginner that this was a great place for me to start. I am very excited to continue my self-education and now I know how. Thanks,
Ron!