Abigail Asher

Abigail Asher of Guggenheim Asher Associates, an art consultancy firm with offices in Los Angeles and New York, does not believe advisors within banks can wield the kind of influence needed to achieve access to important pieces, something that high-end collectors demand.

Abigail Asher, partner at the art advisory firm Guggenheim, Asher Associates
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"People work with us to get the inside scoop on the market, to have someone with the knowledge and experience to advise them," explained Abigail Asher, a partner & principal at Guggenheim, Asher Associates in New York, one of the country's best known advisory firms.

Abigail Asher, partner at the art advisory firm Guggenheim, Asher Associates
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"People work with us to get the inside scoop on the market, to have someone with the knowledge and experience to advise them," explained Abigail Asher, a partner & principal at Guggenheim, Asher Associates in New York, one of the country's best known advisory firms.

Abigail Asher, partner at the art advisory firm Guggenheim, Asher Associates, warns novices not to start bidding too early
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Abigail Asher with Barbara Guggenheim (center), her art advisory business partner, and television news anchor person, Felicia Taylor
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Abigail Asher, partner at the art advisory firm Guggenheim, Asher Associates, cautioned that the sale estimates given by the auction houses in their catalogs (posted online weeks before a sale) shouldn't be relied on as always being an accurate reflection of a work's worth.
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Photo Credits: All photos of Nicholas Lowry are courtesy of Swann Galleries; solo image of Abigail Asher is courtesy of Guggenheim, Asher Associates; group shot of Asher is the copyright of the Patrick McMullan Co. as is the image of Robert Mnuchin.
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Photo Credits: All photos of Nicholas Lowry are courtesy of Swann Galleries; solo image of Abigail Asher is courtesy of Guggenheim, Asher Associates; group shot of Asher is the copyright of the Patrick McMullan Co. as is the image of Robert Mnuchin.

Abigail Asher, Guggenheim Asher Associates

deeply , deeply believe in advice at auction , counters Abigail Asher , a partner in Guggenheim Asher Associates , a prominent bicoastal art-consulting business and major players at auction.I think people get lulled into a certain comfort because they see estimates [ on the value of the artworks ] printed in an auction catalogue , but estimates in a catalogue don't tell you a story and don't reflect really what's going on necessarily..

It's insane," says New York art adviser Abigail Asher of Guggenheim, Asher Associates.

"We often fly to a client's house to install a work he's just bought and find we have to rehang the entire collection," says Abigail Asher, a partner in New York's Guggenheim Asher Art Associates.
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"Collecting is partially about enhancing the way you live," says Asher.
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"Recently, when our client loaned a Magritte painting to an exhibition in France," Asher remembers, "we organized a road trip to the show and worked our way through the French countryside, looking at all the other Magrittes in museums.

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