Zelota Inc. is an independent international art expert company founded in the USA that value art and antiquity for clients from all over the world, examine and research art works, prepare documents of authenticity and help find ways to best use them. We are a company with deep feelings on a mission to help collectors, owners, art dealers and art lovers to maintain, manage or sell their properties in the best way as well as to enrich their collection or buy authentic works of high artistic quality. We provide a full range of professional valuation, consulting and collection management services to meet the needs of both private and corporate collectors, profit oriented galleries or non-profit institutions in Europe, in the United States and in the GCC countries. Our company constantly strives to meet the expectations of our clientele, providing prompt, strictly confidential, personalized service and reports produced to our high standards of excellence.

With over 25 years of professional experience in the field of art historical research, art authentication, provenance research and world wide art fraud investigations to share with our clients in Europe, in the United States and especially in the GCC countries. Our company works with a formidable team of highly qualified and accredited senior appraisers, advisors, international forensic and museum art authentication experts. All pursue the authenticity of art and its applied forensic and technical authentication procedures from bases around the world and from well equipped European laboratories. Zelota International Art Expert Consultancy provide a distinguished team of fine art investigators, art experts, restorers and antiquities consultants, all of them are prominent experts with scientific degrees and specialists in their field in matters of procedural authentication. We have an experienced and internationally recognized team of highly qualified forensic examiners, art fraud investigators, research analysts, fine art consultants, art appraisers and professional restorers who are all dedicated to the pursuit of the varied issues of reliable, correct and finite attribution as well as the absolute authentication of art. Our experts have enjoyed many successes in different European and GCC countries as international art fraud detectives and fine art investigators identifying many fakes or scams, but we managed to discover numerous unknown or forgotten masterpieces as well. The expert team of the Zelota International Art Expert Consultancy examines well in excess of 2,000 art works annually.

Our clients often specifically require the authentication the European, American, Asian art and antiques, our work load would normally include the appraisal or aurthentication of oil paintings, watercolours, acrylic paintings, drawings or prints, inculding engravings, etchings, woodcuts, lithographs and limited editons prints, as well as rugs and carpets, ceramics, porcelains, pottery, antique furniture and other collectibles. Our experts also offer and conduct forensic investigation of works of art and investigate fraud and the forgery of works of art and antiques and their provenance or history.

We organize exhibitions of antique and contemporary art, and represent contemporary artists on the international art market. Zelota International Art Expert Cosultancy have been organizing successful creative art camps in Europe and the GCC countries for years.

We are highly respected and recommended by:

  • government agencies
  • museums
  • non-profit organizations
  • insurance companies
  • banks
  • corporate and private collectors
  • law firms
  • auction houses
  • galleries
  • interior decorators
  • risk managers
  • important private collectors