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Yes, we do share our expertise; we have a limited amount of time available to assist others with evaluating pieces. We do, however, charge for our services; our expertise took us a lifetime to acquire, cost us a fortune and it's very rare.

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ARTISTS COPY THEMSELVES 
AND EACH OTHER.
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In this FAQ we present an example of how an artist creates a final work; how they may redo a scene many times, creating multiple versions of it, before they finalize it. Our example uses Toulouse-Lautrec's famous image of Suzanne Valdon titled "The Hangover", first exhibited in 1889 and first sketched in 1887. Yes, 2 years passed between his conception of the image and his final execution of it.

Photos #1 and #2 below are student copies of the original work. These copies were drawn around 1920.