Advisory

SELL YOUR ART

Rebekah Jacob Gallery’s advisory arm connects art & buyers through online, innovative & strategic digital tactics:

 

Rebekah Jacob Gallery consults clients and conducts business to sell inventory with discretion, diligence, and confidence. We utilize private databases of buyers, a network of colleagues and galleries, traditional auction platforms, and internet auction platforms to broker art works internationally. We pride ourselves on our knowledgeable staff, experience, expertise, and an array of sales outlets.

 

Buying and Selling works of art
RJG offers a discreet and confidential gallery environment for private collectors and institutions to sell works of art through either consignment or direct acquisition.

 

Consulting
The gallery offers a comprehensive art advisory service available to collectors, museums, non-profit institutions, and corporations, as well as trusts, law firms, and banks.  Our services include collection building and deaccessioning, estate planning and distribution, art collection development, and education of American art as well as of current market conditions.  We also provide resources for and oversee restoration, framing, insurance, shipping, and installation. 

 

Auction
RJG offers expert assistance in selling at auction. We can provide the research necessary to determine the value of a property in the context of the artist's body of work and its place in the current market. We also make recommendations for the most suitable locations, appropriate timing, and terms of sale of the art work. 
 
Appraisals
Rebekah Jacob Gallery prepares fine art appraisals for fair market and insurance purposes, both for private collectors, museums, and other institutions. Appraisal reports are thoroughly researched and put together in accordance with the Uniform Standards of the Professional Appraisers Practice.

 

An art appraisal is a written statement, independently and impartially prepared by an expert, setting forth an opinion of defined value of an adequately described property, as of a specific date, supported by the presentation and analysis of relevant market information. Art works are appraised to USPAP standards and evaluated based on current market comparisons and the appropriate market place.  We offer an array of appraisal services for private individuals, institutions, and corporations.  Appraisals are devised for purposes--such as resale, insurance, estate, bankruptcy, and equitable distribution.   

 

Appraisal content includes the following:

  • Description of appraised object:  artist, title, medium, date(s)/period of creation, signature, insciprtion, dimensions.

  • Condition 

  • Determinations of appropriate markets and market data comparisons

  • Major and minor auction histories pertaining to an individual lot (if applicable)

  • Provenance (history of the art work) 

  • Fair market value, replacement or marketable cash value 

  • Additional information:  exhibition history, publication history, artist history, etc.