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A work from the FINAIS Collection, seen up close
Selected pieces from the FINAIS Collection, shown frame by frame to a visiting curator.
Andranik Ghazarian
Swiss Art Expertise
Examination · Appraisal · Provenance
Fine Art Appraisal & Consulting
A trained eye — and the report that proves it
Andranik Ghazarian heads Fine Art International Switzerland AG (FINAIS), a Swiss laboratory where paintings are examined, dated, valued and documented for collectors, museums and the art trade. Instruments and archives are used side by side, and every assessment ends in a written report — restoration, storage and transport are organised around it.
“Everything that can be said about a picture must be said in front of the picture.”
- Scientific examination of works of art
- Art-historical research and provenance
- Condition assessment and documentation
- Restoration, storage and transport
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Andranik Ghazarian in conversation with Philippe Piguet
A descendant of Claude Monet, historian and curator, talking through Impressionism with the head of FINAIS.
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Andranik Ghazarian welcomes Federico Castelluccio and Yvonne Maria Schäfer
Actor, painter and collector — Furio Giunta of The Sopranos — spends a day inside the Swiss laboratory.
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Andranik Ghazarian in conversation with Philippe Piguet
In German: the art historian and curator on Impressionism, exhibition-making and the FINAIS collection.
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Andranik Ghazarian meets Christian Parisot
In French: the art historian and Modigliani specialist, long close to Jeanne Modigliani.
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Andranik Ghazarian receives Sheikh Rachid and Sergey Simonyan
In Arabic: welcoming Sheikh Rachid of Saudi Arabia and Sergey Simonyan of Armenia.
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Andranik Ghazarian and the lawyer Michel Godest
In French: the Paris lawyer, long-standing counsel to Jean-Paul Belmondo, on artistic heritage.
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Dr Maha Abdulhalim Radwi and her team at the FINAIS laboratory
In Arabic: Dr Maha Abdulhalim Radwi of the University of Jeddah joins FINAIS experts for a joint examination.
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Andranik Ghazarian and the art expert Dimitri Nakov
Two trained eyes on the same canvas — where their readings meet, and where they part.
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Andranik Ghazarian, Philippe Piguet and Zhao Lei
In French: an art historian, a Parisian gallerist and curator, and the founder of FINAIS around one exhibition project.
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Andranik Ghazarian and the curator Zhao Lei
In German: preparing an international exhibition project — works, papers, responsibilities.
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Papers, signatures, responsibility
In German: the documents that decide whether a work may travel, and who answers for it.
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In front of the easel with Andranik Ghazarian
A canvas set on the easel — the unhurried first look that decides everything that follows.
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Andranik Ghazarian with guests before an abstract work
In German: a boldly coloured abstract painting on the easel — and the questions that come before any measurement.
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Andranik Ghazarian and the FINAIS team at BTV SGS
In German: papers, stamps and signatures — the formalities that send a work on its way.
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Andranik Ghazarian receives international guests
In German: a working visit to Fine Art International Switzerland, between collection, laboratory and meeting room.
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In the laboratory: the examination of a work
In German: scientific examination, art-historical research and documentation interlocking.
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Andranik Ghazarian at an international meeting on art
In Arabic: how the file begins — the questions asked before any examination is planned.
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Andranik Ghazarian welcomes guests to FINAIS headquarters
In Arabic: why collectors, specialists and institutions come to the laboratory in person.
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Andranik Ghazarian before a work from the collection
In German: the questions asked even before the first measurement.
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A visit on site, at a private collection
In French: the appraisal often begins far from the laboratory, with those who live with the works.
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Andranik Ghazarian at the long table
After hours in the art world: the table where next month's questions get raised for the first time.
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Andranik Ghazarian and the file that travels with the work
For a picture in circulation, the file is not admin around the art — it is part of who the picture is.
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Andranik Ghazarian, art expert and appraiser
The head of Fine Art International Switzerland AG, caught between two working sessions.
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Andranik Ghazarian — a studio portrait
A quiet studio sitting with the founder of Fine Art International Switzerland AG.
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Andranik Ghazarian at a public occasion
In German: art as a shared language across origins and generations.
These pages follow Andranik Ghazarian through the encounters the work is made of: historians and curators, collectors and lawyers, researchers and institutions — from one country to the next. Read the full biography of Andranik Ghazarian.