Eugène Delacroix ◆ Victor Vasarely ◆ Théodore Géricault ◆ Léonard Foujita ◆ Pierre Puvis de Chavannes ◆ Jean Puy ◆ Fernand Léger ◆ Jean Cocteau ◆ François Pompon ◆ Hans Hartung ◆ Jules Pascin ◆ Toshio Bando ◆ T’ang Haywen ◆ Chana Orloff ◆ Antonio de la Gandara ◆ Jean-Jacques Henner ◆ Morris Embry ◆ Ham Ghni ◆ Jean Messagier ◆ Viswanadhan ◆
Eugène Delacroix ◆ Victor Vasarely ◆ Théodore Géricault ◆ Léonard Foujita ◆ Pierre Puvis de Chavannes ◆ Jean Puy ◆ Fernand Léger ◆ Jean Cocteau ◆ François Pompon ◆ Hans Hartung ◆ Jules Pascin ◆ Toshio Bando ◆ T’ang Haywen ◆ Chana Orloff ◆ Antonio de la Gandara ◆ Jean-Jacques Henner ◆ Morris Embry ◆ Ham Ghni ◆ Jean Messagier ◆ Viswanadhan ◆
Eugène Delacroix ◆ Victor Vasarely ◆ Théodore Géricault ◆ Léonard Foujita ◆ Pierre Puvis de Chavannes ◆ Jean Puy ◆ Fernand Léger ◆ Jean Cocteau ◆ François Pompon ◆ Hans Hartung ◆ Jules Pascin ◆ Toshio Bando ◆ T’ang Haywen ◆ Chana Orloff ◆ Antonio de la Gandara ◆ Jean-Jacques Henner ◆ Morris Embry ◆ Ham Ghni ◆ Jean Messagier ◆ Viswanadhan ◆
Asian Arts ◆ Indochina School of Fine Arts ◆ Hermès Collections ◆ Watches ◆ Jewelry ◆ Horology ◆ Construction Art, Stone Decor, and Facades ◆ 18th and 19th Century Decorative Arts and Furniture ◆ Lutherie and Musical Instruments ◆ Hunting Weapons ◆ Velocipedes ◆ Automobiles ◆ Ceramics ◆ Réalités Nouvelles ◆ Regionalism ◆ Toys, Dolls and Automata ◆ Prints ◆ Breton Painting ◆ Barbizon School ◆ Modern Art ◆ Graphic Arts ◆ Contemporary Art ◆ Design ◆ Kinetic Art ◆ Abstract Art ◆ Sculpture ◆ Chinese Ceramics ◆ Japanese Netsuke ◆ Tortoiseshell ◆ Natural Pearls ◆ Sneakers and collectibles ◆ Xerox Art ◆ Orientalism ◆ Street Culture ◆ Trading Cards ◆ Inventories ◆ Heritage Consultancy ◆
Asian Arts ◆ Indochina School of Fine Arts ◆ Hermès Collections ◆ Watches ◆ Jewelry ◆ Horology ◆ Construction Art, Stone Decor, and Facades ◆ 18th and 19th Century Decorative Arts and Furniture ◆ Lutherie and Musical Instruments ◆ Hunting Weapons ◆ Velocipedes ◆ Automobiles ◆ Ceramics ◆ Réalités Nouvelles ◆ Regionalism ◆ Toys, Dolls and Automata ◆ Prints ◆ Breton Painting ◆ Barbizon School ◆ Modern Art ◆ Graphic Arts ◆ Contemporary Art ◆ Design ◆ Kinetic Art ◆ Abstract Art ◆ Sculpture ◆ Chinese Ceramics ◆ Japanese Netsuke ◆ Tortoiseshell ◆ Natural Pearls ◆ Sneakers and collectibles ◆ Xerox Art ◆ Orientalism ◆ Street Culture ◆ Trading Cards ◆ Inventories ◆ Heritage Consultancy ◆
Asian Arts ◆ Indochina School of Fine Arts ◆ Hermès Collections ◆ Watches ◆ Jewelry ◆ Horology ◆ Construction Art, Stone Decor, and Facades ◆ 18th and 19th Century Decorative Arts and Furniture ◆ Lutherie and Musical Instruments ◆ Hunting Weapons ◆ Velocipedes ◆ Automobiles ◆ Ceramics ◆ Réalités Nouvelles ◆ Regionalism ◆ Toys, Dolls and Automata ◆ Prints ◆ Breton Painting ◆ Barbizon School ◆ Modern Art ◆ Graphic Arts ◆ Contemporary Art ◆ Design ◆ Kinetic Art ◆ Abstract Art ◆ Sculpture ◆ Chinese Ceramics ◆ Japanese Netsuke ◆ Tortoiseshell ◆ Natural Pearls ◆ Sneakers and collectibles ◆ Xerox Art ◆ Orientalism ◆ Street Culture ◆ Trading Cards ◆ Inventories ◆ Heritage Consultancy ◆
◆ Dagnan-Bouveret◆ Gustave Courtois ◆ Robert Fernier ◆ Carlos Schwabe ◆ Charles Schneider ◆ Jean Prouvé ◆ René Lalique ◆ Armand Petersen ◆ Anna-Eva Bergman ◆ Suzanne Belperron ◆ Jacqueline Marval ◆ Pierre-Antoine Gallien ◆ Blanche Odin ◆ Charles Lapicque ◆ Mario Prassinos ◆ André Groult ◆ Julie Hugo
◆ Dagnan-Bouveret◆ Gustave Courtois ◆ Robert Fernier ◆ Carlos Schwabe ◆ Charles Schneider ◆ Jean Prouvé ◆ René Lalique ◆ Armand Petersen ◆ Anna-Eva Bergman ◆ Suzanne Belperron ◆ Jacqueline Marval ◆ Pierre-Antoine Gallien ◆ Blanche Odin ◆ Charles Lapicque ◆ Mario Prassinos ◆ André Groult ◆ Julie Hugo
◆ Dagnan-Bouveret◆ Gustave Courtois ◆ Robert Fernier ◆ Carlos Schwabe ◆ Charles Schneider ◆ Jean Prouvé ◆ René Lalique ◆ Armand Petersen ◆ Anna-Eva Bergman ◆ Suzanne Belperron ◆ Jacqueline Marval ◆ Pierre-Antoine Gallien ◆ Blanche Odin ◆ Charles Lapicque ◆ Mario Prassinos ◆ André Groult ◆ Julie Hugo
About Us.
Founded in 1974, the UFE brings together the leading specialists in their fields. They are recognized by their peers and possess extensive experience. Their knowledge and professionalism allow those who consult them to best serve the expectations of the art market on one hand, and to communicate with them easily to achieve the fastest and most conclusive expertise possible on the other.
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For over 50 years, more than 500 experts have joined the UFE over time to provide you with services, assistance, and appraisals of your artworks.
Today, they number 85. Discover them through their specialties and unique expertise on this site under the “Our Experts” and “Our Specialties” sections. Please do not hesitate to contact them directly after viewing their personal pages.
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Reserved exclusively for UFE-accredited experts, the Private Area contains the founding texts of the Professional Chamber: its Statutes, internal regulations, assembly reports, and various important communications regarding the life of the Chamber.
Since 2019, nearly 40 new highly qualified experts have joined the UFE under our presidency. The body of experts established since 1974 is being revitalized, creating a close-knit group driven by the same values of excellence and independence.
The UFE is continuously strengthening its ranks. Our experts respond with authority, speed, and courtesy to requests from cultural and art market participants, professionals, auction houses and galleries, decision-makers, investors, private individuals, and families requiring inheritance inventories or post-loss appraisals.
Authenticating, identifying, and estimating property remains our primary vocation; the second is to participate actively in the collective efforts led by the UFE, the CEDEA, and their members.
Our experts remain at your service. Their contact details, freely available on this site in the “Our experts” and “Our specialties” sections, allow you to reach them easily.
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Announcement published in the Gazette Drouot, September 2025 - layout by ABColors for the UFE © UFE, Paris 2025
As always, the UFE cultivates its values: the True, the Great and the Beautiful, Rigor and Example.
Descartes stated that he had “an extreme desire to learn to distinguish the true from the false in order to see clearly […] and walk with assurance in this life”. Like him, the expert loves light: never has it been more urgent to illuminate the Authentic and guarantee it.
Forgeries [crude forgeries, sophisticated forgeries, false appearances…] are multiplying and modernizing in their methods. To address this global phenomenon, the UFE sharpens precision tools. To traditional knowledge, it combines cutting-edge scientific means so that truth may triumph.
New technologies, combined with history, research, and the expert’s eye, enhance areas of expertise necessarily.
“Nothing is closer to the true than the false”, wrote Albert Einstein in 1931. Without claiming to reinvent Relativity, aware of our duty of lucidity, it is with conviction and wisdom that we progress—excellence demands it—so that the True may triumph.
2023 Annual General Meeting, Musée Henner, Paris.
To meet the current needs of the profession, UFE-accredited experts innovate, committed to performance and attentiveness, providing the right answers by asking the right questions.
An expert’s membership in the UFE, the result of peer review, meets strict criteria of legitimacy, competence, and experience. It offers a genuine guarantee. 
Expertise, followed by the issuance of a certificate of authenticity and an appraisal of the property, serves to guarantee the interests of both the seller and the buyer during a public or private transaction, facilitating its smooth progress. It is preferable for the most recognized expert to officiate. A specialized expert is all the more necessary in public sales since the enactment of the law of July 20, 2011, which liberalized the market for all Voluntary Sales Operators—that is, auction houses—making the expert the only participant in the sale to combine knowledge of the objects with knowledge of the market. The specialized expert thus holds a central position alongside more generalist experts engaged by auctioneers to describe and guarantee the stated values.
For any request for expertise or information, please contact the Office of the Union Française des Experts en Objets d’Art / UFE Professional Union of the French Union of Experts in Art Objects
registered under number 19890387 with the Trade Union Office of the Paris City Hall – Prefecture No. 16186 – Article L. 2131-1 et seq. of the Labor Code
