Provenance covers an object's complete documented history. An artifact may thus have both a provenience and a provenance. The provenance of works of fine art, antiques and antiquities is of great importance, especially to their owner. There are a number of reasons why painting provenance is important, which mostly also apply to other types of fine art. A good provenance increases the value of a painting, and establishing provenance may help confirm the date, artist and, especially for portraits, the subject of a painting. It may confirm whether a painting is genuinely of the period it seems to date from. The
Richard Clifton-Dey 1987). He has also worked in other genres including non-fiction pop-up books for children including: Richard Clifton-Dey Richard Clifton-Dey (29 May 1930 – 5 April 1997) was a British artist. Born in Yorkshire, today he is a highly collectible artist known mostly for Western and science fiction subjects. As in many cases of artwork produced for book covers, most of Clifton-Dey's artwork is not signed. Provenance for all works not signed by the artist is attested by his widow. His most famous work of art may be "Behemoth's World". He started painting in the 1960s and was one of the