I happen to own this piece pictured above — it’s “Rainy Afternoon on the Champs d’Elysee”, an oil on canvas possibly painted by Antoine Blanchard, an often-counterfeited and very famous and popular artists of the 1950s and 1060s.

Verifying his work is extremely hard. He was profoundly prolific, and thousands of his oil paintings now flood the market worldwide. Continue reading →