Services
The art market is a complex and unregulated market place, where even sophisticated buyers require comprehensive guidance to avoid costly mistakes such as counterfeit works and inflated prices.
Services
- Buying and Selling of fine art in all sectors of the art market including, Antiquities, Old Masters, Impressionists, Modern and Contemporary
- Authentication and Attribution to ensure costly mistakes are avoided
- Valuations of individual pieces and collections for both market and insurance purposes
- Auction Representation including arrangements of private treaty sales
- Logistics Management including shipping, import and export licenses, restoration, hanging, museum framing, object mounting and storage
- Collection Management including curatorial expertise, cataloguing, bespoke database management of a collection
- Philanthropy Advice on effective wealth giving to the arts
- Art Lending; raising finance against existing art work
- Tax and Estate Planning pertaining to art related issues
Benefits
- Exclusive Access to works of art in private collections that are not available on the market
- Impartial Advice; being independent of auction houses, galleries and dealers, we provide impartial advice when buying and selling on behalf of our clients
- Time Savings as we are able to manage all areas of the collecting process on our clients behalf, building or selling complete collections with as much or as little involvement from the client as they wish
- Direct Savings due to our buying and negotiating capabilities we significantly reduce transactional charges which in turn we pass directly on to our clients
- Reducing Risk by undertaking thorough due diligence on all transactional decisions, we ensure that potentially costly mistakes are avoided and the client has increased confidence in the decisions being made.
Latest Insights:
Art Theft on the Increase
A recent spate of high profile thefts indicate that art crime is on the rise. The FBI have estimated that international art crime (including fakes, thefts and forgeries) is now worth in excess of $6bn annually (accurate at the time of publication) Read more...
Artist in Focus: Gerard Richter
Spanning nearly five decades, and coinciding with the artist’s 80th birthday, Gerhard Richter: Panorama is a major retrospective exhibition at the Tate Modern that groups together significant moments of the artist’s remarkable career. Read more...
2011 Market Round Up
With Euro fears spreading off the back of a global recession, the art market continues to increasingly be seen as a viable investment compared to other asset classes. Inflation and political instability around the globe are all compelling reasons for collectors to look more closely at art as an alternative investment. Read more...
Who Topped ArtReview's Power 100?
Beijing born artist Ai Weiwei took the coveted first place in ArtReview’s Power 100 list. This year marked the tenth anniversary of ArtReview’s 'Power list'. The magazine ranks the most influential artists and players in the contemporary art scene. Read more...
Art Calendar Highlights
Paris Photo
Grand Palais
Paris
10 November - 13 November
www.parisphoto.fr
Moscow Kremlin Museums
Poiret: King of Fashion
Moscow
Until 12 January 2012
www.kremlin.museum.ru
State Hermitage Museum
Antony Gormley
St Petersburg
Until 15 January 2012
www.hermitagemuseum.org
Kunsthaus Zurich
The Nahmad Collection
Zurich
21 October - 15 January 2012
www.kunsthaus.ch
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Themes and Variations
Venice
15 October - 1 January 2012
www.guggenheim-venice.it
Guggenheim
Maurizio Cattelan: All
New York
4 November - 22 January 2012
www.guggenheim.org
The National Gallery
Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan
London
9 November – 5 February 2012
www.nationalgallery.org.uk
Read more...
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