A bespoke service to help you sell or acquire
the best art on the market.
US Advisory is a consulting service based in Paris, specializing in the post-war and contemporary art market. The company’s headquarters are located at 10 Avenue Percier, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
Our goal is to assist collectors in navigating the art market and making savvy investments—both from aesthetic and financial standpoints.
Relying on a network of international collectors and professionals, US Advisory provides its clients with privileged access to the best opportunities on the market, both to acquire artworks for their collection and to resell them. This leads us to travel around the world to cover major art events (fairs, auctions, major exhibitions) in order to best represent our clients’ interests.
Among our recent placements in prestigious collections are major works by Georg Baselitz, Pierre Soulages, George Condo, Yayoi Kusama, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lee Ufan, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Yoshitomo Nara, Lucas Arruda and many others.
Ugo Scalia graduated from European Business School (Master in Finance). After taking part in several entrepreneurial projects dedicated to online marketplaces for artworks, he decided to found his own art advisory service.
"Art has been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember. Over the years, I have developed an appreciation and an experience that enable me to find artworks matching your own aesthetic inclinations. To source them, I am in contact with a rich diversity of artworks through collectors and galleries as well as international fairs and exhibitions.
I also love to share my knowledge of the most recent dynamics at play on the art market and my watch over established—as well as emerging—artists to provide qualified insights. I’ve always been fascinated to understand how aesthetic values and art market dynamics are correlated."
Buying or selling art is a complex task as the market is extremely vast and hard to navigate. Within your budget, we simplify the acquisition or sale process by offering you:
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Independent advice: based upon historical and aesthetic importance, as well as thorough knowledge of the art market, we give you the necessary insights to acquire the best artworks.
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A broad network of international collectors & galleries: we offer access to a variety of works from internationally acclaimed and emerging artists, both on the primary and secondary markets for Post-War & Contemporary Art. We also provide the appropriate channels to resell pieces from your collection.
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Guidance: we help you navigate every step of an acquisition or sale process.
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Collection management: storage, conservation, fiscal matters, transportation, insurance
and museum loans.
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Sourcing & Investment strategy : Using our international network, we find an artwork which corresponds to several criteria of ours, and caters to your own personal taste. Our criteria include aesthetic elements as well as valuable market insights to assure the piece will gain value over the duration of detention and will always find a buyer.
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Due dilligence: We make sure every aspect of the deal is to be trusted. This includes verifying the authenticity of the artwork, as well as detailed provenance and condition reports. We also make sure the arwork is under the control of the seller (in his possession, in which storage etc.).
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Transportation & Installation: Once a transaction is secured, we provide you with the appropriate transporters and storage facilities at the best prices. In case of delivery directly at the client’s address, we can provide our preferred services for the installation of the artwork.
Finding the appropriate channel: This aspect of our council goes hand-in-hand with the investment strategy that was elaborated during the acquisition process. Depending on the state and evolution of an artist’s market, different channels of sale—auctions, galleries, private transactions—will be more or less appropriate. We help you determine which channel makes the most sense to ensure the best price for your artwork.
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Private sales: These channels are particularly tough to access, as contact with numerous other art advisors is often required to find the right buyer at the right price and within the appropriate time frame. We thus provide access to our international network of collectors and advisors to make this possible.
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Gallery sales: We provide swift and efficient access to the relevant galleries to sell your piece on the secondary market. We can also negociate on your behalf the best consignor agreements with those galleries. In addition, we will always favor deals where your piece is included in major events of the art world calendar—be it exhibitions or art fairs—to ensure selling it at the best price.
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Auction sales: On your behalf, we negociate the best consignor agreements (including price guarantees) with auction houses, and help you understand and navigate the international auction system.
![“Homage to the Square” is a series of geometric abstractions by Josef Albers, begun in 1949 and continued until his death in 1976. The works in this series represent three or four squares of plain colours, nested within one another. The series consists of around 2000 works on different media: paper, canvas, tapestry and engraving. Each work follows an invariable formula: a square format (ranging from 40.6 cm to 122 cm) comprising three or four squares of a single colour. A central square takes up a large part of the surface, with the following squares occupying a smaller area.
With this series, the colour theorist wanted to study the chromatic interactions between neighbouring colours in his paintings. For him, colour is a subjective experience: changes in placement, shape and light produce changes when processed by the human eye: ‘in visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is—as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art’.
To illustrate this fact, the artist has chosen a form that is stripped down and codified to the extreme, the square: a perfect mathematical size for superimposition, a shape that never exists in nature, guaranteeing a man-made quality. Reduced to its most neutral and fundamental form, the square does not distract the viewer's gaze, allowing them to concentrate on the experience of differences in hue, size and layout. With their interplay of colours, the squares seem to support or oppose each other depending on the adjacent shades, ‘therefore, [letting] the colours react in the prison in which I put them’. The effect is different in each work in the series. In ‘Homage to the Square: With Rays’, for example, the dull grey inner square seems to float in the three neighbouring yellow squares.
Another amazing characteristic of this series: the artist uses colour to create space and volume, subverting the limits of two-dimensional space, not unlike how painters of the Dutch Golden Age and the Italian Renaissance used atmospheric perspective, but applied in this case to abstraction. As such, Josef Albers was truly one of the precursors of Op art.
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