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Fine Art Insurance 101

Fine Art Estates

Three Insurance Experts Explain the Intricacies of Insuring Your Art Collection I am often asked by clients if they should cover their art under their homeowner’s insurance (HO) or if they should investigate insuring their art with a separate fine art collectors’ policy.

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Evaluation to Valuation: Navigating Fine Art Appraisals

Art Appraisal Resources

How do you place value on something as intricate and subjective as fine art? In this post we explore fine art valuation and appraisal, how an appraisal is conducted and the different types of art appraisals. Their expertise is essential for ensuring accurate and informed appraisals.

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Sotheby's launches first fine art Sealed auction without reserve

The Art Newspaper

Success of Sealed Auctions has led to an expansion into fine art Yayoi Kusama's "Phantom Polka Dots of Fate, Ordained by Heaven, Were the Greatest Gift Ever for Me" to be sold by Sealed Auctions and on view in Sotheby’s New Bond Street Galleries.

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Acquires Philadelphia Tea Table

Maine Antique Digest

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has acquired one of the finest scalloped-top Colonial tea tables, the gift of Barbara L. and Theodore B. Made in Philadelphia around 1775, it was sold at Christie’s January 19, 2001, consigned by a descendant of Gouverneur Cadwalader, whose mother, Christine Biddle, had

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Yayoi Kusama Stars in Sotheby’s First Fine Art Sealed Auction

Artnet News

The dedicated, single-lot sale marks the auction house's introduction of fine art into its succesful Sealed Auctions. The post Yayoi Kusama Stars in Sotheby’s First Fine Art Sealed Auction appeared first on Artnet News.

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Behind the Scenes of Art Logistics With Fine Art Shippers Co-Founder Ilya Kushnirskiy

Artnet News

The family-owned New York art logistics and storage company assists with all stages of fine art and antiques shipping, storing, and installing. The post Behind the Scenes of Art Logistics With Fine Art Shippers Co-Founder Ilya Kushnirskiy appeared first on Artnet News.

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Bananas! Chocolate! Flowers! The Fine Art of Presenting and Preserving Perishable Sculptures

Artnet News

million banana, we look at contemporary art's fascination with art that goes bad—and how to conserve it. The Fine Art of Presenting and Preserving Perishable Sculptures appeared first on Artnet News. Ahead of the sale of Maurizio Cattelan’s $1.5 The post Bananas!

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