Fine Art Private Sales
Maegis Arts facilitates confidential private-treaty acquisitions and sales of exceptional fine art, representing qualified buyers or sellers and coordinating sourcing, documentation, due diligence, negotiation, and closing.
Our focus
Paintings and sculptures by artists spanning the Old Masters to the most influential figures of modern and contemporary art. Mandates typically concern:
- Blue-chip modern art
- Impressionist and post-impressionist art
- Modern masters
- Postwar and contemporary art
- Old Masters
- Historically important or patrimonial works
- Important private collections
- Museum-quality works
How a private-treaty sale works
In a private-treaty sale, a work is negotiated privately between the parties rather than offered publicly at auction or in a gallery. Terms, timing, and price are agreed confidentially, with no public exposure of the work or of the seller.
Representing a seller
We assess whether a work fits our practice, confirm ownership and the authority to sell, and establish realistic expectations. The work is then presented to a limited number of qualified buyers, with the seller's identity protected throughout, and we coordinate due diligence, negotiation, and documentation through closing.
Representing a buyer
We clarify the collecting criteria, identify privately held works that may correspond to them, and assess provenance, condition, and pricing. We then coordinate access and documentation, and support the negotiation through closing and delivery.
In every transaction, Maegis Arts identifies which side it represents and avoids undisclosed conflicts.
Works sold
To date, we have successfully facilitated the sale of nearly 300 works, from artists such as:
- Gauguin
- Renoir
- Picasso
- Balthus
- Boudin
- Braque
- Brueghel
- Pissarro
- Cross
- de Vlaminck
- Delvaux
- Dufy
- Francis
- Haring
- Indiana
- Corot
- Monet
- Sisley
- Magritte
- Matisse
- Miró
- Signac
- Caillebotte
- Miotte
- Warhol
- Morisot
- Pascin
- Picabia
- Sérusier
- Utrillo
- Chu Teh-Chun
- Zao Wou-Ki
Beyond fine art
On a selective basis, Maegis Arts may accept mandates involving other exceptional tangible assets (collector automobiles, superyachts, and trophy real estate), secondary to its principal focus on fine art and rare string instruments.