• COLLECTION MANAGEMENT
  • As an independent partner we maintain collections, minimising risk, and work with collectors to develop value in their holdings.
     
    Our collection management clients enjoy the full range of services offered in our Art Advisory and Consulting division. This includes monitoring auctions and exhibitions; making proposals for acquisitions; managing the selling process cost-effectively; managing de-acquisitions and arranging private sales; obtaining quotes for sales and purchases; bidding and buying at auction; purchases from galleries; and negotiation of commission rates and fees.
     
    We care for and look after your collection. Ensuring the safekeeping, care, presentation, storage of your art collection. We ensure all artwork are accounted for, documented and recorded, and monitored on a regular basis providing regular feedback to clients.
     
    We ensure best possible practices in the management, care and conservation of your collection.
     
  • SERVICES INCLUDE:
    Valuations
    We provide thorough, in-depth, and well-researched valuations of art collections. This process includes capturing all cataloguing information for each artwork (artist name, nationality, and dates; artwork title; medium; size; signature; date; provenance; exhibition history; literature), assessing the condition and producing a report for each artwork, a good-quality photograph of the artwork and, finally, assigning a suitable, accurate and market-related value to each artwork (for insurance, resale, and probate valuation purposes).

    Digital Inventory
    We provide professional management of your collection based on high-quality, intuitive digital inventory and collection management software. This supports the documentation, inventory, and presentation of your collection and replaces the traditional and outdated pdf valuation documents that have been supplied historcally. 

    Our Collection Management service includes having your full collection hosted on a central digital repository that you can access online via a web portal on your laptop, and through a bespoke app on your smart device. The digital platform gives you your own private viewing rooms – always live, always online, and always available from any smart device – where your collection is stored and presented in a flattering digital format for easy access and reference to show friends, curators, other collectors, insurers, or for personal browsing.

    Conservation & Restoration
    We monitor the quality and condition of all artworks in our clients' collections and obtain regular feedback and reports from conservators to ensure all artworks are appropriately maintained. When necessary we oversee and supervise any conservation projects on our clients' behalf.

    We will advise you on all matters relating to the conservation, preservation and restoration of your artworks – from assessment and condition reporting, through administration, logistics and access to the most appropriate conservators and service providers.

    Framing
    We manage all framing, archiving and presentation requirements of artworks in our clients' collections.

    Logistics
    We organise all the shipping, transportation and storage requirements to meet our clients' unique needs. We assist with international customs, imports, exports, taxes and insurance.

    Loans
    We arrange, process and administer loans on our clients' behalf. We process and administer loans to temporary exhibitions and long-term loans to museums, covering the full process from the initial loan-agreement, through logistics, insurance, condition reporting, display and documentation, to the time the artwork returns to your possession, on a “nail-to-nail” basis.

    Collection Management Services
    1. Strategy and policy development for the collection
    2. Inventory management
    3. Cataloguing and database development
    4. Provenance research
    5. Collection digitisation
    6. Collection hosting and presentation
    7. Management and administration of conservation and restoration
    8. Logistics and storage
    9. Insurance and security
    10. Curation and installation
    11. Management and administration of acquisitions and de-acquisitions 
    12. Legacy planning
    13. Philanthropy
    14. Museum loans
    15. Art rentals
    16. Finance: loans and bridging finance