Research & Blog

We document the process and progress in our artist research as well as the barriers and roadblocks we discover along the way.

Jonathan Flike inspecting historical frame
How Visard Stewards Fine Art and Historical Framing
What is Historical Framing?  What Visard considers historical framing is any framing, matting, or contextual ephemera connected to the artwork when acquired by Visard. We categorized historical framing internally in... Read more...
How Visard Researches an Overlooked Artist: Attribution, Provenance, and Why It Matters
How Visard Researches an Overlooked Artist: Attribution, Provenance, and Why It Matters
Visard’s core premise is simple: an artwork is not “complete” until its story can be responsibly told. The gallery frames each work as “a fragment of a larger narrative” and... Read more...
Why Provenance Matters for Overlooked Artists: The Recovery of Context
Why Provenance Matters for Overlooked Artists: The Recovery of Context
Provenance is the history of an artwork’s ownership and is often the most vital piece of information a work can carry. It is also one of the most frustratingly difficult... Read more...
The Third Death of the Artist: How Society Lets Legacies Burn, Scatter, and Disappear
The Third Death of the Artist: How Society Lets Legacies Burn, Scatter, and Disappear
There is the death of the author where the creator's intentions are lost to the interpretations of the consumer of the work. Then there is the physical death of the... Read more...