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https://provenio.art/api/mcpFemme assise (après Cranach le Jeune)
Pablo Picasso, 1958 · Oil on canvas · 194 × 130 cm
Studio de Picasso, Mougins
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Private Collection, Geneva
CUSTODY GAP DETECTED
Estimate: $4.2M – $6.8M
RISK SCORE
MODERATE
ERR database cross-reference recommended
Not a price database.
A knowledge graph.
Traditional auction databases give you Artist–Price–Date. Provenio gives you the full context: who taught whom, which custody gaps overlap with high-risk historical windows, how critical reception shifted valuation over decades. A five-year defensive moat, encoded as recursive relationships.
Artist → Teacher → Movement Influence
Map the intellectual lineage behind a contemporary master's auction premium. Identify undervalued artists within proven influence networks.
Artwork → Custody Chain → Legal Exposure
Cross-reference automatically against six risk windows: Nazi era 1933–45, Colonial extraction 1880–1920, WWII Pacific 1937–45, and more.
Critical Event → Market Inflection → Price Trajectory
When did the critical community rehabilitate an artist? Track the lag between reception shift and auction price response.
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“Is this work safe to handle?”
Provenio cross-references the custody chain against all six high-risk windows. A 1938–1944 gap in a Viennese collection flags immediately — with ERR database cross-reference recommended and Art Loss Register match confidence: 0.07. You know before the consignment agreement is signed.
“Which emerging artists carry influence premiums?”
Multi-hop graph traversal identifies artists within two degrees of established masters — by mechanism (apprenticeship, shared patron, stylistic transmission) and strength. Median price ratio vs. influencer: 0.34. Six artists in the undervalued band, all with critical rehabilitation events post-2018.
“What happened to works from the Gurlitt collection?”
Polity dispersal analysis traces 1,280 works created under the Third Reich context, flagging 347 with documented acquisition gaps between 1933 and 1945. Custody history reconstructed from Getty PI, Knoedler, and linked archival sources. Repatriation status mapped by current institution.
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> Assess provenance risk for the Schiele work consigned this week.
// search_artworks → match found
Egon Schiele, Sitzende Frau, 1917
Custody records: 4 verified, 1 gap
Gap window: 1938–1941 (Vienna)
// fn_custody_gap_risk → risk windows
⚠ CRITICAL — Nazi Era 1933–45 overlap
Check ERR database, Art Loss Register
Recommend: secondary provenance verification
before accepting consignment.
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