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BUILDING COLLECTIONS
ART ADVISORY & PRIVATE SALES -
Building collections with cultural significance and long-term value.
We work with private collectors, family offices and organisations to build, develop and refine significant art collections, providing highly personalised art advisory across acquisitions, sales and collection strategy.
Our art advisory experience spans contemporary art, modern and post-war art, as well as significant Old Master transactions. We advise on collection strategy, source works privately and through galleries and auctions, and negotiate acquisitions and sales on behalf of clients.
Our approach is informed by curatorial judgement and Simon Oldfield’s legal and commercial experience, bringing together quality, context, structure and long-term value.
Our involvement can extend across the life of a collection — from commissions and new acquisitions to private sales, museum loans and gifts, collection management and longer-term legacy.
Collections we have advised on include works by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, Josef Albers, Bridget Riley, Frank Bowling, Tracey Emin, Cindy Sherman and Rashid Johnson, alongside established and emerging contemporary artists. We also advise on and manage major private commissions, including large-scale and site-specific works by artists such as Conrad Shawcross.
We work discreetly and transparently, with clear commercial arrangements, drawing on longstanding relationships with artists, galleries, institutions and specialists internationally.
Image above: The Garcia House by John Lautner, Los Angeles
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Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal featured the homes and art collection of longstanding art advisory clients, Bill Damaschke and John McILwee. More info here . -
The New York Times's T Magazine
Art Advisory: Revival of President Gerald & Betty Ford Estate, CaliforniaOur longstanding art advisory clients, Bill Damaschke and John McILwee, acquired and restored theformer home of US President Gerald Ford and his wife, Betty Ford, in Rancho Mirage, California. Featured... -
Wallpaper Magazine
Art Advisory: Garcia House by John Lautner, Los AngelesSimon Oldfield advises Bill Damaschke and John McILwee on their global art collection, and curates the artwork acquired for their iconic LA home by John Lautner, which sits perched at... -
FT How To Spend It
Simon Oldfield's clients' home and art collection in Los Angeles featured in the FT's How To Spend It -
The Guardian | Phyllida Barlow: Disruptor at Wolterton Hall
“This imaginative exhibition reverberates with Barlow’s punk irreverence” … Simon Oldfield “has reinvented the space, making room for new ideas to take over” — The GuardianThe Guardian has awarded Phyllida Barlow: Disruptor at Wolterton four stars in a major review by Charlotte Jansen. The exhibition brings together works spanning five decades of Phyllida Barlow’s practice... -
The Art Newspaper, 'Sea State' at Wolterton Hall
Sea State: restored Norfolk mansion puts on water-themed exhibition by Maggi Hambling and Ro RobertsonJoanna Moorhead for The Art Newspaper about the Arts and Culture programme at Wolterton Hall, Norfolk, conceived by Simon Oldfield and his team, writes: ' In June, Wolterton began its... -
Galerie, 'Sea State' at Wolterton Hall
Contemporary Art Finds a Perfect Home in a Beautifully Restored English Country Mansion'To drive up the half mile, tree-lined avenue that leads to Wolterton Hall in Norfolk is to arrive in style at one of the county’s most beautifully restored stately homes....
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