Collectors
Guiding private and corporate clients through the end-to-end journey of curating an intelligent contemporary art collection with connoisseurship at its core: Vision, Source, Procure, Display. Mercer Contemporary delivers insights and access to all aspects of the discipline:
Conservation
Collection Management
Philanthropy and Donations
New Acquisitions
Sales
Installation
Legacy Planning
From the archive to academia, Mercer Contemporary offers full-service Legacy Planning for established artists, collectors, and executors of estates. Our Legacy Specialists have observed a growing and important need in the market. While not every artist is a Jeff Koons, nor is every collector an Eli & Edyth Broad, their contribution to the canon of art history is just as important. Being able to preserve artistic practices and connoisseurship at every level expands scholarship in an ever-fragmented post-internet age. Our objective is to protect and preserve an artist or collectors vision and life's work in the history books for future generations. Our Legacy Specialists work to document an artist's oeuvre and practice, or a collectors connoisseurship and vision, through an array of services, publications, and curatorial endeavors in partnership with trusted legal and taxation advisors.
Curation
The consultancy was founded by award-winning Curator, Nicole Bray, who was awarded the Emerging Curator Fellowship with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and has completed prestigious curatorial residencies around the globe. Mercer Contemporary is currently taking on bespoke projects.
Appraisal
Services
Mercer Contemporary is certified in USPAP by the Appraisers Association of America and specializes in Post-War (1945-), Contemporary, and Emerging Fine Art across all mediums.
Gift Tax
Non-Cash Charitable Contribution
Insurance
Estate
A comprehensive inventory of all objects in the collection, listed in a verified document that cross-checks physical inventory by location with the documentation. The process includes photography and baseline condition reports.
Cataloguing: using international Object ID standards (Getty, ICOM)
Documentation: verify, track down, reissue, safeguard
Condition and Environmental Assessment
Solutions for all the myriad issues that come out of the Inventory
Referrals: Appraisers, Insurance, Scientific Analysis, Conservators, Framers, Shippers, Art Handlers, Lawyers, Art Financing
Liaise with art advisors, decorators, accountants, lawyers, family office, wealth managers, house and building staff, and others also servicing the client.
Loans & Moves
Insurance claims