Artificial intelligence is making its mark on the art world, encroaching even on fustier areas such as the Old Masters trade. AI will, for instance, be a talking point during the Tefaf art and antiques fair in Maastricht next week: Carina Popovici, chief executive of the Swiss-based AI company Art Recognition, will reveal at the accompanying Art Business Conference how it recently attributed a painting to a Renaissance German artist.
Art Recognition, which was founded five years ago, has an AI system which, it says, “offers a precise and objective authenticity evaluation of an artwork”. On its website, the company says it has completed more than 500 authenticity evaluations, verifying contested works such as an 1889 self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh at the National Museum in Oslo.