Estate Liquidation
As objective, independent professionals who do not buy or sell and are unaffiliated with any auction house or gallery, NYFAA assists private and corporate clients, trusts, and estates who wish to sell works of art or liquidate a collection. These clients rely on NYFAA’s Art Disposition Service to ensure the process is handled expediently, discreetly, and in the most advantageous manner. In many instances, this service is offered on a no-fee basis to our clients.
Using our extensive network of resources and relationships developed over 40 years, coupled with an unrivaled knowledge of the intricacies of the fluid global art market, NYFAA will suggest the most beneficial method of disposition, including local and international auctions, gallery purchase or consignment, private transactions with collectors worldwide, and donations to appropriate non-profit organizations.
Once a strategy is developed, NYFAA will act as your representative throughout the entire process, providing the following services, as appropriate:
- Obtain estimates, competitive bids, and suggest aggressive sale parameters
- Negotiate consignment agreements and terms of sale, including costs of storage, transportation, conservation, insurance, marketing, and photography
- Compare competing sale proposals
- Manage the entire sale process, acting as a liaison between the sale venue and client
- Facilitation of sales for estates and household cleanouts
- Development of proposals to museums and non-profit institutions for donation
- Salvage resale on behalf of insurance companies
All estate liquidation services are provided with complete confidentiality.
Recent Projects
NYFAA assisted sale: Revenge of the Goldfish, Sandy Skoglund Doyle New York, sold for $10, 625 USD
NYFAA assisted sale: Marilyn (F./S. 23), Andy Warhol, Doyle New York, sold for $86, 500 USD
NYFAA assisted sale: Pagoda, Miriam Schapiro Doyle New York, sold for $13, 750 USD
NYFAA assisted sale: Unyarded Deer, Neil Welliver Doyle New York, sold for $40, 625 USD
NYFAA assisted sale: Tropic, Alexander Liberman Doyle New York, sold for $43, 750 USD
NYFAA assisted sale: The Star (F./S. 258), Andy Warhol Doyle New York, sold for $52, 500 USD
NYFAA assisted sale: The galleries of the Stelvio, Lake Como, Sanford Robinson Gifford Sotheby’s New York, sold for $366, 400 USD
NYFAA assisted sale: Pair of George III Silver-Gilt Three or Four Light Candelabra, Paul Storr, London, 1808 Sotheby’s New York, sold for $325, 000 USD
NYFAA assisted sale: Balzac, nu A (study), Auguste Rodin Sotheby’s New York, sold for $146, 500 USD
NYFAA assisted sale: Marilyn (F./S. 23), Andy Warhol Doyle New York, sold for $86, 500 USD
NYFAA assisted sale: A Pair of George III Gilt Carton-Pierre Girandoles 1760 Sotheby’s New York, sold for $50, 000 USD
NYFAA assisted sale: The Fitzgibbon Marine Centerpiece: A Magnificent George III Silver Centerpiece, James Young, London, 1786 Sotheby’s New York, sold for $869, 800 USD
NYFAA assisted sale: Still Life with Plates, A Sack Filled with Olives, Game, Pomegranates, and Quince, Paolo Antonio Barbieri Sotheby’s New York, sold for $181, 000 USD
NYFAA assisted sale: Spring, Pieter Breughel the Younger Sotheby's New York, sold for $1,900,000 USD (property from a West Coast estate)
NYFAA assisted sale: The Four Seasons, Sebastiaen Vrancx Sotheby's, New York, sold for $725,000 USD (property from a West Coast estate)
NYFAA assisted sale: The Whitsun Bride, Pieter Breughel the Younger Sotheby's, New York, sold for $700,000 USD (property from a West Coast estate)
NYFAA assisted sale: Sancai-Glazed Stoneware Figure of a Daoist Deity, Ming Dynasty Sold at a New York auction for 149,000 USD (property of the Estate of Eric Lidow, Los Angeles)
NYFAA assisted sale: The Family, Fernando Botero Sotheby's New York, sold for $533,000 USD
NYFAA assisted sale: Late 18th Century Polychrome Lacquer Table Bonham's, San Francisco, sold for $660,000 USD
NYFAA assisted sale: Octobre en Normandie, Gustave Loiseau Sotheby's London, sold for £180,000 (property of a private American collector)
NYFAA assisted sale: Cartier Diamond Wristwatch, Sotheby’s, New York, sold for $67,500 (Property of a Gentleman)
NYFAA assisted sale: Gary Simmons, Whirl-a-Girl, Phillips, New York, sold for $55,000 (Property of a Private Collector)
NYFAA assisted sale: Sally Mann, The New Mothers, Phillips, New York, sold for $75,000.00 (Property of a Private Collector)