By Susan Kendzulak, About.com Guide
An employee of Bonhams auction house adjusts a painting by Pablo Picasso next to a painting by Marc Chagall which featured in their Impressionist and Modern Art Sale on June 1, 2010 in London, England.
Photo © Oli Scarff/Getty ImagesBesides majoring in art, St. Louis-based certified fine art appraiser Mary Carpenter recommends learning the business side of art appraising by working in a gallery or auction house.
She says, “If you can have experience with conservation as well, that is useful in assessing the impact condition has on objects.”
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