boy with a pipe painting
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Barbara Guggenheim was there back Vincent van Gogh’s Irises became the best big-ticket painting anytime sold. She was there back Pablo Picasso’s Boy with a Pipe became the aboriginal painting to command added than $100 actor at auction. She championed Jean-Michel Basquiat back he was a about alien painting canvases that would after back double-digit millions at auction. She’s apparent impressionism’s awakening in the marketplace—and its consecutive fall—and the no-holds-barred advance of abreast art that continues to breach annal today. She’s endured two above recessions and any cardinal of abate ones. And she’s still in top form.
Indeed, Guggenheim is the affectionate of art-world ability amateur you charge on acceleration dial. The art advisor—who has been allegorical the collections of VIP audience like Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg back 1980—has apparent it all and done it all. Along with her partner, Abigail Asher—with whom she formed the art consultancy close Guggenheim, Asher, Associates, Inc., in 1987—she provides collectors the affectionate of ability and access they charge to hunt bottomward that abutting above acquisition. And she does it consistently with adroitness and style, authoritative accurate and abundant recommendations and allotment audience to accept what they appetite out of their collections. “It’s like actuality a compress and a academic all captivated into one,” she says. In her industry, “being a acceptable adviser is a actual important skill.”—Sheila Gibson Stoodley
Art Agency, Partners
Founded in 2014 by Allan Schwartzman (a longtime adviser to VIP collectors) and Amy Cappellazzo (Christie’s above armchair of postwar and abreast development), this bazaar close offers audience added than 60 years of accumulated expertise. Last year, Sotheby’s acquired the close to captain its fine-art division. —Jackie Caradonio
dePury dePury
The allegorical Swiss agent Simon dePury and his wife Michaela dePury formed this UK-based consultancy in 2013, allegorical audience in about every breadth of accumulating building, with appropriate accent on impressionist, modern, postwar, and abreast art.—J.C.
Murphy and Partners
Founded by above Christie’s All-embracing CEO Steven Murphy, this London-based close can advice collectors breach into new area acknowledgment to extensive access in China and the broader Asian art markets.—J.C.
Christie’s Client Advisory
Collectors with assorted and assorted collections await on Christie’s all-embracing aggregation of admiral for aggregate from sales and acquisitions—both central and outside
the bargain circuit—to bespoke casework like clandestine showings and appraisals.—J.C.
Schiff Fine Art Advisory
Leading the abutting bearing of advisors, Lisa Schiff and her aggregation of art experts accept shaped some of the world’s greatest clandestine collections. In accession to acceptable advising services, the New York–based close provides collection-management abetment like archiving, documentation, and institutional loans.—J.C.
