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Exec Bios
Docantic 20th Century Art Identification (for Morateur Galleries)
Exec Bios
SUMMARY
Born in Chicago, Raymond Chandelier, the world’s leading Bounty Hunter for crimes against 20th Century art and furniture identification, always gets his man. ‘Rough Ray’ turns in awol auction houses and suspect art appraisers to HQ at Docantic for a nice reward.
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Experience
Bounty Hunter‚ …er, and other things
Docantic (sorta)
January 2015 – Present
Greater Los Angeles Area
They let me kick up my feet at DOCANTIC when I’m back in LA cuz I turn in to them so many supposed art experts who can’t tell the difference between their patootie and a 1937 Arbus Parchment Chest. …I can.
Responsibilities:
Defend, serve and protect the high-class art community from guys like I once used to be-and especially, the reputations of reputable designers whose works these guys malign.
Stop and apprehend poor art documentation purported by fancy-schmancy auction houses.
Rough up their public face a little.
Accomplishments:
Exposed 3 NYC auction sales on misnamed sconces wrongly overvalued by $20-30,000.
Pulled the Paule Leleu rug out from under the feet of Wright auction house in Chicago, when they used lousy literature instead of 1954 front covers from Mobilier & Décoration.
Smashed the $6,000 Jean Perzel Glass Console table’s undervaluation at Sotheby’s, by providing proof of its earlier 1950s creation date (thanks to Docantic archives!)
Brought in 8 suspect art dealers so far this year to get my bounty from Docantic.
Got my ma and grammie each 2 dozen red roses for mudda’s day.
Private Investigator
Chandelier-Hangings, Private Eyes Inc.
September 2001 – November 2011
London, UK
I opened my own PI agency in Upper Norwood with buddy Charlie Hangings (whom I had once turned in to juvie way back) after he took up residence there incognito in 1988 some 13 unlucky years later. His specialty was paintings, tableaux and any other art stuff hung on walls …until somebody offed him during a Tate gallery hanging in 2013. My specialty was-and still is-mismatched, misguided, misattributed, misdated, misdocumented and misused 20th Century furniture and artwork. (I put up with a whole lotta crapola, in Charlie’s memory.)
Responsibilities:
Tail no-gooders suspected of being up to no good in the art collection community.
Verify names and dates, and places and people associated with questionable ‘objets d’art’. Y’know, authenticity jobs.
Slug back shots of ol’ Hennessy with Margo the Redhead, at Rules in Covent Garden. (Purely an informant.)
Accomplishments:
Once went 5 days without sleep while tailing a Picasso in the trunk of a Fiat.
Delivered £350,000 sterling in coins to Bertrand in Bruges as a favor for an old friend. (When my 2002 Jaguar-S was still running.)
Took 20 course hours of etiquette to learn how to hold my pinkie out when having high tea, and loading my Winchester .375 Magnum. (Wish the Docantic guys would invest some decent Earl Grey.)
…uhm, Traveling…
June 2000 – September 2001
(If I tell ya, I’d have to kill ya.)
