A range of Practice Areas
Our clients include artists and their estates, collectors, dealers, and art market institutions. Please refer to a comprehensive list of our services.
Art Market
Agart advises a wide range of art market participants. We assist art dealers, galleries and collectors on all aspects of art transaction and changes to the regulatory framework and how they may affect our clients’ businesses.
We advise both new collectors as well as UHNW individuals with existing blue-chip collections. We advise on most aspects of owning a collection from set up to loan agreements, due diligence (collection audit) and sales both by means of private sale and at auction.
Art Law Education
Agart realised there is a common misconception that art law is a separate area of law. Whilst the subject is art focussed, from legal perspective it requires understanding of wide range of legal principles of contract, tort, agency and bailment to name a few.Agart is passionate about art law education and often collaborates with postgraduate level educational institutions to deliver art law lectures.
Agart is passionate about promoting the understanding of the law and how it affects the art market which is vital for those looking to enter the profession as a career and for those looking to expand their existing careers within the art world in business and specialist and legal roles.
Artists
Agart works with represented and unrepresented artists on a diverse range of aspects of their business ranging from gallery commissions to primary market sales, exhibitions as well as contentious matters.
Advisory Services
Our advisory offering for artists and art market participants includes the following:
- Structuring of artists' businesses, agency agreements and lending arrangements
- Negotiation and drafting of artist representation agreements
- Negotiation and drafting of consignment agreements
- Negotiation and drafting of art loan agreements
- Intellectual property rights including artists' resale rights
- Licensing
- Artists x brands collaboration
- Purchase and sale of art by private treaty or at auction
- Tax and succession planning
- Import and export of works of art
- Disputes regarding ownership, provenance and authenticity of art
- Disputes over transactions involving agents
- Disputes involving auction houses
- Disputes involving art galleries
- Anti-money laundering regulations for art market participants including obligations, risk assessment, policy and implementation
What our clients say
“I had the opportunity to coinvest in a museum quality artwork with Agata in. She was responsive, professional and a pleasure to work with. She is very savvy when it comes to due diligence and practical aspects of transacting.
I would certainly work with Agata again in future“
