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🀫 Gratitude · the art advisors

The people who guide the great collections.

Gratitude to the fine-art advisors, gallerists, and auction specialists who guide collectors to the works of a lifetime and steward the world's great collections. Celebrated from public work, with a cited source on every card. Find or get discovered locally in the 🀫 Yellow Pages.

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Larry Gagosian

Founder of Gagosian, the global network of galleries widely regarded as the most powerful dealer operation in postwar and contemporary art

Gagosian, New York and worldwide

blue-chip contemporaryprimary and secondary marketmega-gallerycollector relationships
Why we celebrate them

He built the template for the modern global gallery and remains the dealer top collectors call for the most important works.

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David Zwirner

Founder of David Zwirner, one of the leading contemporary galleries with spaces in New York, London, Paris, and Hong Kong

David Zwirner, New York and worldwide

contemporary artartist estatesprimary marketglobal gallery
Why we celebrate them

He is known for patient, artist-first program building and for putting scholarship and long careers ahead of quick sales.

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Iwan Wirth

Co-founder and president of Hauser and Wirth, the international gallery he started in Zurich in 1992

Hauser and Wirth, Zurich, London, and worldwide

contemporary artartist estatesgallery as institutionprimary market
Why we celebrate them

He champions living artists and major estates while building gallery spaces that function like public museums and cultural destinations.

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Manuela Wirth

Co-founder and co-owner of Hauser and Wirth, which she established in 1992 with Iwan Wirth and Ursula Hauser

Hauser and Wirth, Zurich and worldwide

contemporary artgallery leadershiphospitalityartist relationships
Why we celebrate them

She is central to Hauser and Wirth's people-first culture and its warm, place-based model of gallery, farm, and hospitality.

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Marc Glimcher

President and CEO of Pace Gallery, the modern and contemporary gallery founded by his father Arne Glimcher in 1960

Pace Gallery, New York and worldwide

modern and contemporaryart and technologyglobal expansionprimary market
Why we celebrate them

He has pushed Pace into new markets and into art-and-technology programming while stewarding a roster spanning generations.

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Thaddaeus Ropac

Founder of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, with spaces in Salzburg, Paris, London, Milan, and Seoul

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg and worldwide

contemporary artartist estateseuropean marketprimary market
Why we celebrate them

He is known for connecting European postwar masters with living artists and for careful, scholarly gallery programs.

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Emmanuel Perrotin

Founder of Galerie Perrotin, the international gallery he started in Paris in 1990

Perrotin, Paris and worldwide

contemporary artemerging artistsglobal galleryprimary market
Why we celebrate them

He built a global gallery from a teenage start and is known for backing playful, popular contemporary artists early.

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Marianne Boesky

Founder of Marianne Boesky Gallery, opened in SoHo in 1996 with locations now in Chelsea and Aspen

Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen

contemporary artemerging artistsprimary marketartist careers
Why we celebrate them

She is credited with launching careers of artists such as Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara through long-term commitment.

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Paula Cooper

Pioneering dealer who opened what is often cited as SoHo's first art gallery in 1968 and founded Paula Cooper Gallery

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

minimal and conceptual artcontemporary artprimary marketartist estates
Why we celebrate them

She helped define SoHo and has championed minimal and conceptual artists with rigor for more than five decades.

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Mariane Ibrahim

Somali-French gallerist and founder of Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, with spaces in Chicago, Paris, and Mexico City

Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago and worldwide

african diaspora artcontemporary artemerging artistsprimary market
Why we celebrate them

She has built a leading platform for artists of the African diaspora and expanded it across three continents.

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Nicola Vassell

Jamaican-born dealer who opened Nicola Vassell Gallery in Chelsea in 2021 after years at Deitch Projects and Pace

Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York

contemporary artunderrepresented artistsprimary marketcuratorial program
Why we celebrate them

She is among the first prominent Black women to open a Chelsea gallery and widens the lens on art history through her program.

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Ebony L. Haynes

Director of 52 Walker and global head of curatorial projects at David Zwirner, known for a research-driven, Kunsthalle-style program

David Zwirner / 52 Walker, New York

curatorial programcontemporary artconceptual practicegallery leadership
Why we celebrate them

She reimagined a commercial space as a slow, curatorial venue with full autonomy and an all-Black founding staff.

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Dominique Levy

Swiss dealer and co-founder of Levy Gorvy Dayan, with a career spanning Christie's private sales and her own advisory

Levy Gorvy Dayan, New York and worldwide

postwar and modernprivate salessecondary marketcollector advisory
Why we celebrate them

She is known for a considered, relationship-first approach and the conviction that bigger is not always better.

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Brett Gorvy

Co-founder of Levy Gorvy Dayan and former worldwide chairman of postwar and contemporary art at Christie's from 2000 to 2016

Levy Gorvy Dayan, New York and worldwide

postwar and contemporarysecondary marketprivate salescollector advisory
Why we celebrate them

He brings auction-house dealmaking depth to a gallery model and is trusted with the market's most significant works.

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Amy Cappellazzo

Co-founder of Art Intelligence Global and former chairman of the fine art division at Sotheby's

Art Intelligence Global, New York and Hong Kong

market intelligencecollector advisorysecondary markettransactions
Why we celebrate them

She is regarded as one of the sharpest market minds, translating deep research into candid guidance for collectors.

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Allan Schwartzman

Independent advisor and curator who co-founded Art Agency Partners and led the advisory group at Sotheby's

Schwartzman and, New York

collector advisorycollection buildingcuratorialcontemporary art
Why we celebrate them

A founding curator of the New Museum, he helps collectors build serious collections with a curator's eye rather than a salesman's.

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Philip Hoffman

Founder and chairman of The Fine Art Group and a former deputy chief executive at Christie's Europe

The Fine Art Group, London and worldwide

art advisoryart financeappraisalfamily offices
Why we celebrate them

He bridges art and finance, advising family offices on collections and treating art with the rigor of an asset class.

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Wendy Cromwell

Founder of Cromwell Art and past president of the Association of Professional Art Advisors, formerly a Sotheby's contemporary specialist

Cromwell Art, New York

collector advisorycollection buildingcontemporary artindependent advisory
Why we celebrate them

She offers independent, unbiased guidance and has helped set professional standards for the art advisory field.

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Sandy Heller

Founder of The Heller Group and a leading private art advisor known for guiding major collectors

The Heller Group, New York

collector advisorysecondary marketcollection strategycontemporary art
Why we celebrate them

He works discreetly at the top of the market, advising major collectors on landmark acquisitions over two decades.

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Kim Heirston

Founder of Kim Heirston Art Advisory, an independent advisor building postwar and contemporary collections for over twenty-five years

Kim Heirston Art Advisory, New York

collector advisorycontemporary artcollection buildingindependent advisory
Why we celebrate them

She has placed works by artists from Cindy Sherman to Warhol and was named among the Financial Times top international advisors.

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Josh Baer

Art advisor and publisher of The Baer Faxt, the art-market newsletter he launched in 1994, and a former gallerist

The Baer Faxt, New York

market intelligencecollector advisorysecondary marketart journalism
Why we celebrate them

He gives collectors an experienced insider's honest read on the market through his long-running newsletter and advisory.

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Patti Wong

Founder of Patti Wong and Associates and former international chairman of Sotheby's, credited with building its Asia business

Patti Wong and Associates, Hong Kong

collector advisoryasian marketsecondary marketcollection management
Why we celebrate them

Hong Kong-born, she is a trusted guide for Asian collectors and helped grow Sotheby's Asia into a market on par with New York.

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Alex Rotter

Christie's global president who also serves as global chairman of 20th and 21st century art, having overseen record sales

Christie's, New York

auction specialistpostwar and contemporarymodern artrecord sales
Why we celebrate them

He created Christie's cross-category 20/21 model and is trusted on the phone for the market's highest-value lots.

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Oliver Barker

Chairman of Sotheby's Europe and principal auctioneer, on the rostrum for landmark sales since joining in 1994

Sotheby's, London

auctioneercontemporary artsingle-owner saleseuropean market
Why we celebrate them

He has taken the rostrum for defining sales from David Bowie to Freddie Mercury with a steady, trusted hand.

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Brooke Lampley

Senior director at Gagosian and former global chairman and head of global fine art at Sotheby's

Gagosian, New York

impressionist and moderncollector advisoryprivate salessecondary market
Why we celebrate them

A scholar-turned-dealmaker, she led global fine art sales at Sotheby's before joining Gagosian's private sales team.

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Cheyenne Westphal

German-born auction leader who served as global chairwoman of Phillips from 2017 to 2025 after heading contemporary art at Sotheby's

Phillips (former), London

auction leadershipcontemporary artsecondary marketcollector relationships
Why we celebrate them

She guided Phillips to record contemporary results and is respected as one of the field's most influential women.

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What this is, and isn't.

A celebration of the Art Advisors & Dealers community, assembled entirely from public information as an act of credit and gratitude. It is not a claim of endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or partnership by anyone featured. Every person is real and publicly documented, with a cited source of truth on their card; we never invent a person or a claim, and we prize accuracy over speed. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed at any time. Names and marks belong to their owners.