Authentication and certificates

The elements to include in your message are detailed below, in the Authentication procedure section. Please attach photographs below:

Photographs of the work

Accepted formats: JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, PDF — up to 10 files, 10 MB each (40 MB in total).

Submitting this form creates no contractual commitment.

Portrait of Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi
Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi — Studio Harcourt, Paris

Authentication procedure and certificates of authenticity

For any request for authentication or expertise, please send Zenderoudi Archives the following:

  • Professional-quality, high-resolution photographs of the work: front, back, signature and a few details
  • Dimensions of the work
  • Medium
  • Support
  • Provenance documentation
  • Any previously issued certificate, and exhibitions

Upon receipt of the documents, further information may be requested.

Fees for the authentication procedure apply and will be communicated after the request and the receipt of these documents.

Authority of the artist

Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi, as the author of his works, holds in that capacity a direct and personal authority — which no third party may claim — to rule on their authenticity.

This authority proceeds from his status as author and from the moral right attached to it, guaranteed by article L.121-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code — a perpetual, inalienable and imprescriptible right to respect for his name, his authorship and his work.

Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi created and mandated Zenderoudi Archives for the authentication and expertise of his works. Outside this mandate, no other person, committee or body is authorised to rule in his name on the authenticity or attribution of a work.

Warning

No one other than Zenderoudi Archives may claim authorisation to authenticate or expert works by Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi, nor suggest, by any means whatsoever — public communication, website, social network or commercial document — that they act with the artist’s agreement or on his behalf. Only certificates of authenticity issued by Zenderoudi Archives are valid.

Such a presentation, when misleading, may constitute a fault engaging the civil liability of its author under ordinary law, as well as an infringement of Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi’s moral right (article L.121-1 of the Intellectual Property Code) and, where applicable, an infringement of the “Zenderoudi” trademark, registered with the Institut national de la propriété industrielle, within the meaning of articles L.713-2 and L.716-4 of the same code.

This statement complements the Terms of Use and the Warning against counterfeiting and unauthorised uses of the Site, separate documents accessible from every page of www.zenderoudi.com.