Profile
Art Arcanum is an agency that provides services in support of the acquisition, sale, and legacy transfer of artworks - provenance research; art historical and critical assessment; authentication research and verification; condition analysis; price comparison and valuation appraisal. We establish a confidential and efficient space for negotiation beginning with secure viewing arrangements. Privacy and confidentiality have made the present scale of cultural capitalization possible and are therefore essential to our operation.
Art Arcanum is a research agency that utilizes scholarly inquiry to verify and appraise the value of important contemporary artworks. Sound scholarship informs successful acquisition and sales strategy. This approach has provided Art Arcanum with access to artworks that have been previously and intentionally withheld from public view or identifiable ownership. Sound scholarship supports the intricate process of searching for requested artworks and accurately detailing provenance. Some of the most important contemporary artworks held in private collections and declared off-market, have become available following meticulous research. Art Arcanum recently accessed Warhol’s “Giant Mao”, Basquiat’s “Wines of Babylon”, Lichtenstein’s “Sweet Dreams Baby”, and Twombly’s “Black Board” 1969.
Transitioning experience and sensation into writing provides artwork with resonance and context. Art Arcanum has produced critical essays on Donald Judd, Richard Deacon, Sui Jianguo, Yves Klein, Block Chaining and Conceptual Art, and ‘Sculpture and New Object Relations’.
Art Arcanum develops and manages exhibition projects designed to expand critical discourse and to provide a productive intersection for artists, curators, and gallerists with the viewing public. We collaborate with an international community of scholars, artists cultural producers, managers, and collectors, requiring presence and engagement. Art Arcanum seeks to humanize and affirm all professional interactions, resulting in frequent travel to Asia, Europe, the United States, and Australasia.
Art Arcanum is purposed to educate and transform the impulse to possess into an informed, integrated and empathetic vision to collect.
