On the one hand, it memorializes an origin of Bachardy’s intense commitment to portraiture as an artistic genre. The Los ...

And the reasons for the practice went beyond pride. Artists realized that their signatures could make their work more valuable to collectors. And if a nobleman knew who had made a beautiful piece ...

each bearing a copy of an artist’s signature. While his uncle had previously assembled a reference library of more than 55,000 artist’s signatures, the newly discovered 3-by-5 cards had not been added ...

Ready to invest seriously in art? Pro tip: pay attention to the size of the artist's signature. In this case, bigger is better. That's the takeaway from a new study out in the European Journal of ...