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Christopher Andrews

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I have a couple of Roderick Lovesey original oil paintings that I am looking to sell. I would appreciate your thoughts on who to speak to regarding these two pieces.

Sylvia Evans

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An art expert in an art auction house . You will be able to find a link on the internet somewhere. Suggest that your photographs are submitted the correct way around with a close up of signature.
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Same advice here, really - these are high-quality works, so don't be in any rush to sell them, they ought to fetch a good price in the right place: an auctioneer specializing in pictures - especially aircraft/RAF pictures - would be the obvious place to start. Then there's the Guild of Aviation Painters or Artists - that's not quite the right title, Google should help and if I weren't just off to bed I'd look it up - they might be able to give advice. The RAF Museum might be interested - the armed forces not infrequently commission paintings, and could well be interested in these. If I think of anything else, I'll pop back tomorrow - but start with these possibilities, and don't whatever you do entrust them to Ebay or anything other than the highest-end gallery or auction house you can find who will express an interest.
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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The other possibility is the Imperial War Museum. But quite apart from institutions, there are many collectors of this sort of work, and probably Lovesy has his own dedicated collectors.
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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There are even golf-clubs, RAF clubs, ex-servicemen's clubs, British Legion clubs, that would leap at these ...... I'd leap myself if I could afford them. They're superb paintings.

Keith Orange

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They are high quality paintings. You won't get a valuation from here, forum members are artists rather than valuers, and aviation art is a specialist subject. This UK site for aviation artists might help you: http://www.gava.org.uk/ Best of luck!