Independent Art Advisory
Private counsel
for significant
collections.
Advisory on acquisition, disposal and long-term stewardship in the secondary market. No inventory. No consignment book. One interest to represent — yours.
By introduction and enquiry
Practice
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Private Sales
Sourcing and placing works away from the auction floor. Access to material that never reaches a catalogue, valuation held to a discipline, and negotiation conducted entirely off the public record.
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Collection Strategy
An acquisition brief with a point of view. Provenance, condition and title diligence before money moves. Periodic review of a holding — what to keep, what to deepen, and what has quietly finished its work for you.
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Stewardship
Cataloguing, valuation and insurance support, storage and transit, and the unglamorous groundwork of succession — carried out alongside your family office, counsel and executors rather than around them.
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Market Counsel
Board and executive-level advisory to institutions, foundations and art-technology companies working through a market in structural change: private liquidity, lending against art, fractional ownership, and the provenance infrastructure now being rebuilt.
A great transaction leaves no trace. No press release, no lot number, no record of what was paid — only a work that has moved from one careful custodian to the next.
Approach
Independent
Fees come from one place: the client. There is no inventory to move and no consignment to fill, so advice costs nothing to give honestly.
Discreet
Discretion is not a courtesy extended at the end. It is the structure of the engagement from the first conversation onward.
Unhurried
The wrong work at the right price is still the wrong work. Much of this job is knowing when not to act.
Principal
Catherine Freeman
Catherine Freeman advises private collectors, families and institutions on the secondary art market.
She co-founded FP13, an art consultancy focused on private deals in the secondary market, and has spoken publicly on the structure of that market — who controls it, how works change hands without ever reaching a public record, and what the financialisation of art means for the people who actually live with it.
Catherine Freeman Art Advisory is her independent practice.
LinkedIn Wealth Office X — “Who Really Controls the Secondary Art Market?”
Enquiries
Enquiries are read and answered personally, in confidence.
catherine@cfaa.ioFor introductions, second opinions on a work already under offer, or a conversation about a collection with no immediate transaction in view.