Requesting Help Identifying Painting

paulevans · November 15th, 2011, 08:13 PM

I would be very grateful for help identifying the attached painting and artist. I cannot make out the name or find this person or painting online anywhere.

Thanks

John · November 15th, 2011, 10:08 PM

I believe it says S. Burnett". I have no record of such an artist. Here's a recent sale of a painting from Goodwill which appears to have the same signature:
http://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions...g-8810042.html

paulevans · November 16th, 2011, 09:14 PM

Thanks for identifying the signature. Do you have any recommendations on how to identify the artist S. Burnett? I actually picked up this painting from a Goodwill too which is an interesting coincidence... perhaps there's a lot of art at Goodwill but I frequent there a lot and very rarely see authentic pieces.

John · November 17th, 2011, 10:01 AM

There are reference works that you can find in larger libraries, but IMO your best bet for finding more information is to do some power searching in Google and maybe Bing. Using a variety of search term combinations and some persistence and imagination. Make sure you know how to use operators such as double quotes and the minus sign for eliminating irrelevent categories.

Also, by posting here maybe someone else will find this thread and add their own painting or some details about the artist. Under "Thread Tools" above, you can subscribe to this thread so that you'll be notified if anyone posts to it.

November 20th, 2011, 05:46 PM

I have this piece of art r its a painting, it looks like the people driving the chariots are very rich, as the horses, chairots, and i think thier indians are all wearing gold, on the bottom of the piece ther is a word PARTHASARTHI, i have googled this for ages with no feedback, ive had this piece for around 11 yrs, could any1 be so kind and shed any light on this i can try and put a pic up of it in a few days thanks to any1 that takes the time to read my long post :-)

John · November 20th, 2011, 06:59 PM

I got this from Wikipedia, so presumably you already know this part:

"PāŗthaSāŗthi is another name for Lord Krishna. It means The Charioteer (or Guide) of Pāŗtha."

November 20th, 2011, 05:46 PM	#5
Emmz Posts: n/a	Help I have this piece of art r its a painting, it looks like the people driving the chariots are very rich, as the horses, chairots, and i think thier indians are all wearing gold, on the bottom of the piece ther is a word PARTHASARTHI, i have googled this for ages with no feedback, ive had this piece for around 11 yrs, could any1 be so kind and shed any light on this i can try and put a pic up of it in a few days thanks to any1 that takes the time to read my long post :-)

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November 15th, 2011, 10:08 PM	#2
John John Malyon, host Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 2,400	I believe it says S. Burnett". I have no record of such an artist. Here's a recent sale of a painting from Goodwill which appears to have the same signature: http://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions...g-8810042.html

November 16th, 2011, 09:14 PM	#3
paulevans Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 2	Thanks for identifying the signature. Do you have any recommendations on how to identify the artist S. Burnett? I actually picked up this painting from a Goodwill too which is an interesting coincidence... perhaps there's a lot of art at Goodwill but I frequent there a lot and very rarely see authentic pieces.

November 17th, 2011, 10:01 AM	#4
John John Malyon, host Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 2,400	There are reference works that you can find in larger libraries, but IMO your best bet for finding more information is to do some power searching in Google and maybe Bing. Using a variety of search term combinations and some persistence and imagination. Make sure you know how to use operators such as double quotes and the minus sign for eliminating irrelevent categories. Also, by posting here maybe someone else will find this thread and add their own painting or some details about the artist. Under "Thread Tools" above, you can subscribe to this thread so that you'll be notified if anyone posts to it.

November 20th, 2011, 06:59 PM	#6
John John Malyon, host Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 2,400	I got this from Wikipedia, so presumably you already know this part: "PāŗthaSāŗthi is another name for Lord Krishna. It means The Charioteer (or Guide) of Pāŗtha."