Andranik Ghazarian — art expert and appraiser
Founder & CEO, Fine Art International Switzerland AG (FINAIS)
Andranik Ghazarian leads Fine Art International Switzerland AG (FINAIS), a Swiss laboratory where paintings are examined, dated, valued and documented for collectors, museums and the art trade. Instruments and archives are used side by side, and every opinion ends in a written record — with restoration, storage and transport organised around it.
Andranik Ghazarian is the founder and chief executive of Fine Art International Switzerland AG (FINAIS), an international fine-art laboratory in Switzerland. Its clients are collectors, institutions and art professionals, and its work begins where most opinions stop: in front of the object, with instruments, archives and a written record.
“Everything worth saying about a picture has to be said in front of the picture.”
What Andranik Ghazarian works on
The practice of FINAIS combines scientific examination, art-historical research, condition assessment and documentation, together with the coordination of restoration, storage and transport. These four strands are deliberately kept under one roof: a technical result without art-historical context is mute, and research without material evidence cannot be verified.
Dialogue with the art world
Alongside the laboratory work, Andranik Ghazarian maintains a continuous exchange with the people who shape how artworks are understood. He has received, among others, the French art historian, critic and curator Philippe Piguet; the actor, painter and collector Federico Castelluccio with Yvonne Maria Schäfer; the Paris lawyer Michel Godest, long-standing counsel to Jean-Paul Belmondo; the art historian and Modigliani specialist Christian Parisot; the gallerist and curator Zhao Lei; the art expert Dimitri Nakov; Sheikh Rachid from Saudi Arabia with Sergey Simonyan from Armenia; and Dr Maha Abdulhalim Radwi of the University of Jeddah with her team.
Works from the FINAIS Collection have also travelled: the exhibition “Romance & Starlight” in Guizhou, China, presented pieces from the collection to a Chinese public.
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