Art Consulting and Curating

Art Scrittura offers consulting and curating services to assist clients in evaluating their personal art collections.

Developing an art collection requires vision and extensive knowledge of art, as well as strong research skills and art-market expertise. Our broad backgroundin art history and the commercial art world positions us well to provide expert counsel to collectors wishing to evolve their collections.

Building an art collection involves the curatorial concern for context and presentation. Any group of objects or ideas can benefit from thoughtful organization and display. To curate a collection amplifies opportunities for meaning and pleasure through selection and exhibition.

Our advising role includes evaluation of the strengths and direction of the collection, art-market and art-historical research, consultation about acquisitions, curatorial evaluation, and other services directed at a quality outcome for collectors seeking to grow their collections. We are enormously gratified to help collectors find works of art they love.

In working closely with collectors to create databases or catalogs, we have the privileged opportunity to become familiar with their goals and visions. From this informed perspective we offer knowledgeable assistance in the ongoing refinement of a collection.



Painting by Jan van Eyck, Man in a Blue Chaperon, c.1420

Jan van Eyck, Man in a Blue Chaperon, c. 1429

“The perfection of Van Eyck’s illusionism establishes its pedigree in the heavenly realm, though signature and date flaunt its earthly provenance.”

Icon and Narrative in the Work of Rogier van der Weyden
and Jan van Eyck
, 2003
Rosemary Veronica O’Toole

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