LPDM Fine Art Consulting

Services for Private Art Collectors

Whether for a one-time purchase or as part of a long-term collecting strategy, making a wise, carefully researched decision to purchase a work of art is critical. Lauren Della Monica of LPDM Fine Art Consulting offers a variety of services to clients interested in purchasing quality works of art. Art advisory services include:

• Identifying and executing a collecting or single-purchase buying strategy;
• Sourcing works of art at auction, galleries and with artists and dealers;
• Researching and analyzing market price and long-term value of each piece;
• Arranging appraisal and authentication of artwork by relevant experts and institutions, when appropriate;
• Recommending purchases of artwork appropriate to each collector;
• Conducting private, guided gallery tours; and
• Coordinating purchases and completing transactions on behalf of clients.

For those who wish to sell a single work of art or an entire collection LPDM will tailor a program best-suited to the time frame and particular needs of the seller as well as a program designed to yield the best sale price for the work(s).

Additional Expertise

Tours: Lauren Della Monica leads guided art history lecture tours at local museums focusing on the permanent collections and special exhibitions as well as the state of the art market for the works under consideration. She also leads art gallery tours geared towards the interests of the respective audiences.  To book a private individual or group art gallery or museum tour please use the contact information on the Contact page.

Writing: Lauren Della Monica has recently completed writing a 19th century American marine paintings book due out later this year. She is also a contributor to major American arts periodicals.

Special Projects: LPDM offers expertise in building art collections for corporations, condominiums and country clubs seeking to personalize their facilities and, thus, differentiate themselves from more generic corporate or hospitality environments.

Fine Art Blog

Be sure to read Lauren Della Monica’s fine art blog on the Writing page of this site. The page is regularly updated with articles on the finer points of art collecting, art news and current events. The latest posting will also appear on this page, below. If you have questions or topics you wish LPDM’s fine art blog to cover please send LPDM an email and let us know.

An exhibition of five works of art by Brazilian artists Mauricio Dias and Walter Reidweg fits perfectly within the programming goals of its gallery space at the Americans Society as it references the similarities and the discord between cultures in the Americas.  Here the artists have chosen to examine  the  cross-cultural and social contexts of North and South America in a variety of ways in each of their works.

In Mama, 2000, a 16 minute film depicts a US border patrol agent discussing training  dogs for the tough job of drug enforcement and policing illegal border crossings.  The piece focuses on the personal and emotional connection between the trained dogs and their agents, and to the left and right of the main film are the “honor roll” of dog portraits with name banners on each to identify the successful canine.

In Suitcases for Marcel, 2006/2008, 12  distinctive cases rest atop separate pedestals, the tops propped open to reveal 7″ LCD panels playing films of characters carrying that particular bag around Rio.  The simultaneously running films document the journeys of the 12 cases while the cases reveal their films from within.  Each case seems to take on its own persona as it tells its own story.

In Raimundos, Serverinos and Franciscos, 1998, Brazil’s poor janitors and doormen gather in a small room and go about their daily activities for 4 minutes, piling in one by one and claiming a few inches of space, before hauntingly dropping their activities and turning to look at the camera as the film ends.  The final seconds create an awareness in the viewers that the men, the most popular names of men in such professions in Brazil, knew we were watching all along and have called us out of our voyeuristic privacy.  Their actions are then revealed to us to have been a performance all along.

Moving Truck, 2009, brings the work of the two artists to the present day and to New York itself.  The artists park a U-Haul truck on the street and broadcast their films in the open back of the truck container.  The reactions of viewers and passersby is filmed as part of the project and displayed in the gallery.

Dias & Reidweg:…and it becomes something else is on view now through August 1, 209 at the Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, New York City.