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"A number of years ago we began looking for a company that could catalogue our families' art collections. The objects were in various locations and their documentation was not well organised. Without a proper cataloguing system, we found it difficult to appreciate these treasures to the full and to manage them as financial assets.

On the one hand we envisioned a handsome, leather-bound catalogue, rich to the touch. It would display beautiful photographs of each object, with details of its creator, provenance, its literature and exhibition and financial histories. On the other hand we saw a sophisticated, easy to access database on the internet. It would not only display each object and its full documentation, but also provide a variety of useful links: for example to museums owning similar objects, to libraries, book retailers, art markets, etc.

We searched widely but could not find an organisation that would offer this. Sharing one vision, together we founded The Art Document Company."

Pieter C.W.M. Dreesmann and Joop H. van Litsenburg

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We can also make your collection accessible at www.artdocument.com. You will then have a unique digital object archive – your private virtual art reference library. All collections are subject to change, for instance through sales, new acquisitions, loans to exhibitions or availability of newly published research records. We can add this new information to your database, thus keeping your collection constantly up-to-date and enhancing the joy and pleasure you will experience from each individual work of art.

After receipt of your final approval we will produce your own personalised, hard copy catalogue. Our clients can be assured of receiving an impeccably indexed and attractively presented register of their collection. As for the number of copies, any quantity is fine, even just one.

Each documentation project starts with creating an indexed inventory. We match all available material, such as invoices, photos, certificates, newspaper clippings, insurance documents, personal notes, valuation and condition reports, certificates and biographical references to each individual object file. By doing this our staff consolidates your hard copy collection archive, which contains all your original documents. At the end of the project this archive will be returned to you.

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