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)
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