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Is Art a Good Investment? A Gallery Owner's Honest Answer
Is Art a Good Investment? A Gallery Owner's Honest Answer

Whether art is a good investment, and how to invest in art without making expensive mistakes, are questions that deserve an honest answer. Our gallery has dealt in original work...

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Inuit Art Prints from Kinngait (Cape Dorset): A Collector's Guide
Inuit Art Prints from Kinngait (Cape Dorset): A Collector's Guide

Inuit art from Kinngait, the community in Nunavut long known as Cape Dorset, has a special place in our gallery. The original prints created there are made by hand in stonecut, ...

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Salvador Dalí's Divine Comedy: A Guide to the Wood Engravings
Salvador Dalí's Divine Comedy: A Guide to the Wood Engravings

The Salvador Dalí Divine Comedy consists of 100 colour wood engravings, one for each canto of Dante's poem, created between 1959 and 1963. In this guide I describe how the suite...

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Marc Chagall Lithographs: A Collector's Guide
Marc Chagall Lithographs: A Collector's Guide

A Chagall lithograph can cost under $1,000 or run well into five figures, and both can be entirely original. What separates them is their size, colours and subject matter, how l...

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Salvador Dalí Signed Lithographs: A Buyer's Guide to Authentic Works
Salvador Dalí Signed Lithographs: A Buyer's Guide to Authentic Works

I have handled Dalí's prints for twenty years, and I will say plainly what most dealers say only among themselves: no artist's graphic work is more often misrepresented. That is...

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Picasso Lithographs: Value, Signatures and What to Look For
Picasso Lithographs: Value, Signatures and What to Look For

Chali-Rosso has dealt in original works by the modern masters, Pablo Picasso among them, since 2005, and the questions collectors ask me about a Picasso lithograph are nearly al...

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What Is a Lithograph? How to Tell an Original from a Reproduction
What Is a Lithograph? How to Tell an Original from a Reproduction

A lithograph is an artwork printed from a flat surface, traditionally a slab of limestone, on which the artist has drawn with a greasy crayon or a greasy ink. That is the short ...

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Dalí Dreams: Exclusive Portfolios from the Master's Surreal Vision
Dalí Dreams: Exclusive Portfolios from the Master's Surreal Vision

This new blog has sailed in from the surreal shores of fine art collecting. It spotlights three rare, complete Salvador Dalí portfolios: Alchimie des Philosophes, Twelve Tribes ...

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Celebrating Inuit Art - step into the spirit of the Arctic lands
Celebrating Inuit Art - step into the spirit of the Arctic lands

At Chali-Rosso Art Gallery, we’re thrilled to showcase this exciting new addition to our collection: Inuit Art! This newly introduced selection of art brings a fresh perspective...

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Jean-Paul Riopelle: The Canadian Surrealist Who Painted the Subconscious
Jean-Paul Riopelle: The Canadian Surrealist Who Painted the Subconscious

This blog article was inspired by the recent exhibition of Jean-Paul Riopelle’s works I went to visit at the Vancouver Art Gallery. For many Canadians, Riopelle is a lesser know...

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