SUMMER NEWS BULLETIN
Dear
Clients, Collectors, Colleagues, Supporters & Friends,
Walmsley Fine Art Advisory is using this challenging period of restricted travel as
productively as possible to develop the efficiency of our databank for significant European Impressionist & Modern works of Art.
We
continue to build our knowledge and capabilities to discover previously
unknown, uncatalogued and unanalysed documentation. Our archive is one of the
largest in the world and presently contains administration records on 230 art
dealers, leading institutions and a growing private collector archive with
documentation spanning 1895 – the present.
We use
this data to allow Art Collectors to see information impartially and
transparently to inform their decisions whether to buy, sell or pursue legal
cases.
Recently
completed projects include:
·
Tracking the movement of significant and specific European
Impressionist and Modern works of Art that moved through auctions
in Germany, Switzerland and Austria-Hungry between 1901 – 1917 and between
1930-45
·
We re-calibrated the Moderne Galerie Thannhauser Munich's
stock book, previously considered 'lost'. This has given us a clear
understanding of many of the artworks traded by Thannhauser before 1920, in
particular those by Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, Picasso etc...
·
Research and Analysis of the Fauve period artworks of Georges Braque
Projects
In Progress 2020 - 2021
·
We will continue to track the movement of significant and specific
European Impressionist and Modern works of Art that moved through auctions
in Germany, Switzerland and Austria between 1917 – 1929.
· Ambroise Vollard's
records are being collated together to form 1 stockbook spanning
the years 1900-1933. This will enable us to understand his agent & client
network as well as the significant artworks he traded.
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The project brings together all recorded stock numbers,
photographic numbers and sales dates. This allows us to 'read' his records
chronologically in terms of sales and also chronologically in terms of stock
numbers and photographic numbers that have been recovered from original source
materials.
·
We will be piecing together the earliest transactions from Galerie Rosenberg in Paris before 1920. This will accompany the rest of the
Rosenberg Archive that we hold in digital form.
·
We aim to collate data from French Auction Catalogues 1880
– 1950.
Current
Services
·
We are able to set out budget conscious Research Project Proposals
tailored to each artwork's needs. (For example: factual data gathering and
report writing for the purpose of authentication).
·
Price Analysis of Artworks – used for valuation for insurance,
selling or buying and as part of legal feasibility assessments.
·
Collector
Risk Protection - 'Initial Assessments' and 'Basic Risk
Analysis Reports' are possible. 'Full Risk Analysis Reports' are proposal-able
some delays should be expected if access to documentation requires travel,
particularly to the USA.
·
Logistics, Insurance, Conservation and Forensic Analysis
quotations and planning is possible.
Contact us to learn more.
We would like to wish our clients all the very best in health and well being through this troubling time, enjoy your Summer!
We would like to wish our clients all the very best in health and well being through this troubling time, enjoy your Summer!
