• ART CONSULTING & ADVISORY
  • With over two decades of experience, our expert guidance and strategic insights empower clients to navigate the art industry seamlessly and confidently when engaging in buying and selling. Whether the objective is to acquire art for passion, investment, or a combination of both, our services keep you well-informed and guide you through the process, ensuring the achievement of your aims and goals at each stage.
     
    Our comprehensive services encompass monitoring all auctions and gallery exhibitions in Johannesburg and Cape Town, regularly proposing artworks for potential acquisition. Additionally, we manage the process of selling artworks in the most cost-effective manner. This includes overseeing de-acquisitions and sales, researching and advising on optimal points of sale, arranging private sales, and obtaining quotes from auction houses and galleries. We establish auction bidding budgets for clients, conduct bidding on their behalf, and negotiate commission rates and fees to minimise losses and maximize gains.
     
    We are committed to creating value for our clients in line with the market, achieved through skilled and meticulous negotiation.

     

     

  • SERVICES INCLUDE:
    Collection Strategy
    We work closely with our clients to establish the main drivers of their collection and develop strategic plans to develop coherent collections that fulfil their desires and needs. The fundamental question here is – what do you want from your collecting experience?

    Consulting
    Based on the strategy of a client’s collection, we provide a consultation service to achieve their aims and goals at each step of the process.

    Acquisitions & 
    De-acquisitions 
    (Purchase & Sale)
    Whether buying or selling, we offer tailor-made solutions to our clients by making use of our deep industry experience and expertise, and accessing our global network of private collectors, private dealers, galleries, auction houses, museums, and companies. Placing artworks in the right collections is a top priority and a core service.

    We ensure our clients the best possible prices inline with market values through skilled and careful negotiation on their behalf with a view to minimising losses and maximising gains.

    Buying
    We provide our clients with a uniquely personalised approach to buying artworks in the form of discreet, off-the-public-market private sales services. Transactions are completely confidential and executed promptly and discreetly.

    Our expert services and attention to detail provides dedicated, bespoke advice and guidance throughout the buying process, from the primary market, the secondary market, or private acquisitions directly from other collectors. We work independently from galleries and auction houses ensuring our clients’ best interests.

    Advising clients on acquisitions, recommending artworks and artists to pursue to develop a collection, and advising on artworks and artists to avoid if over-priced, unpromising, or over-exposed to the market is central to this function. Our support and guidance assists clients in avoiding uneducated or uninformed decisions and transactions with likely negative financial consequences.

    Selling
    We provide our clients with a uniquely personalised approach to selling artworks from their collections, in the form of discreet, off-the-public-market private sales services. Transactions are completely confidential and executed promptly and discreetly.

    We utilise innovative, targeted approaches to placing artworks that combine our extensive and developed personal relationships with collectors, in-depth knowledge of the artworks and artists we handle, and deep market intelligence.

    This provides private selling opportunities across a variety of categories ranging from late-19th and early-20th century Modernism (circa 1890s to 1950), through High-Modernism (1950s and 1960s), to Post-War and Contemporary art (spanning the second half of the 20th and the 21st century).

    Clients benefit from our extensive network of international collectors and art buyers across a range of categories, eras, mediums, and styles. Our broad knowledge-base, expertise, network, and established relationships ensure the best results for you. 

    We work with a network of international galleries and auction houses and organise private and auction sales of clients' artworks, negotiating beneficial commission rates and fees on their behalf.

    Research & Reporting
    Education, research, information and knowledge transfer is at the core of our consulting and advisory services. Research is a core value which guides and informs all our decisions. Market research and reporting supports our ability to provide clear, cogent and well-informed advice to our clients, thereby equipping them to effectively navigate the market. We provide relevant and up-to-date intelligence on general market trends, categorised by genre, era or movement, and artist specific reports which present in-depth analysis of the characteristics and trends in a particular artist’s market over a designated period.

    We monitor the movements of the art market through auction performance and private sales data and provide regular feedback to our clients. We analyse and predict global trends and advise our clients accordingly, using art market reports and our global network of arts industry professionals to gather information.

    Access
    We provide access to exclusive and private gallery visits, tours of institutional exhibitions, art fairs, auction houses, visits to artist’s studios, and bespoke viewings of private collections.

    Attending art fairs, gallery exhibitions, auction house previews, museums exhibitions and artists’ studios together with clients to assist in sharpening their eye and developing their personal taste and knowledge base adds value to the collector’s experience. We work closely with our clients to assist their understanding of how to determine the value of an artwork, the structure of the art industry, and the life-cycle of an artwork.

    Consulting & Advisory Services
    1. Market analysis and reporting
    2. In-depth artist market analysis and reporting
    3. Identifying and proposing prospective artworks for consideration as potential acquisitions
    4. Sourcing artworks
    5. Physical, in-person viewings and inspections of artworks on client’s behalf
    6. Negotiating on client’s behalf
    7. Acquisitions
    8. Payment
    9. Insurance
    10. Logistics
    11. Curation
    12. Installations
    13. Valuations
    14. Development of collection’s ideology and policies
    15. De-acquisitions and sales
    16. Exclusive access to art fairs, museums, galleries and auction houses
    17. Private viewings
    18. Auction monitoring and reporting
    19. Gallery exhibition monitoring and reporting