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Jesus Ceballos, American Artist VS. Rufino Ceballos, Spanish Artist

Time and time again, you step onto the internet and find misinformation.  It is as simple as Garbage In - Garbage Out:  Auction houses misidentify artworks for their financial benefit, database companies track the auction house records, sell that information through monthly or yearly subscriptions such as: Invaluable and Mutual Art, which sells the misinformation to you.   One artist that these institutions continuously get wrong is the work by Jesus Ceballos.  They frequently say his work belongs to Rufino Ceballos.  Understandable, they are lazy and fail to do their research and due diligence, and of course Rufino is a noted artist while Jesus' art career has been overlooked by art historians and auction houses. Rufino signed some of his paintings as Cebal, a shorter version of his last name.  At other times he used his full last name, especially for his landscapes that were not necessarily sold through the gallery that represented him.  Rufino was born in Spain in 1907, lived a