Assets 2014 Speaker Highlights

The Assets 2014 Program Committee has put together a program that will appeal to all specialty divisions. Attendees will find sessions on a wide range on topics including those that will sharpen your appraisal practice and methodology skills and deepen your product knowledge.

Don’t forget to register before December 31, 2013 to receive the discounted Super Saver rate!

Below is a sneak-peak look at the exciting speaker and topic line up for ISA’s Annual Conference: April 25-28, 2014.  To learn more about the program and to register, visit the ISA website!

General Session Speakers

Art & Branding: Has Quality Value in Our Consumer Culture?
Michael Findlay, Director Acquavella Galleries

Serving as a Consultant and/or Expert Witness in Legal Proceedings
Peter Gaido, Esq, Gaido & Fintzen

How Can Title Defects Impact Appraisals?
Judith Pearson, President and Co-Founder, ARIS Companies

Native American Basketry and Artifacts

Gaylord Torrence, Curator Native American Collections, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Treasures of the Presidential Libraries
Clay Bauske, Museum Curator at Harry S. Truman Museum and Library

Fine Art Breakout Speakers

On Quality: Connoisseurship and Art History

Dr. Bruce Robertson, Acting Director of UC Santa Barbara's University Art Museum and Professor of History of Art and Architecture at UCSB

History of Tamarind Prints, How to Identify and Value Tamarind Prints

Marjorie Devon, Director, Tamarind Institute of Lithography

Panel Discussion: The Nuts and Bolts of Fine Art Appraising

Steve Roach, ISA AM, Steve Roach Appraisal & Advisory Services;
Cris Drugan, ISA AM, Emerald Art Services, LLC;
Matt Quinn, Quinn's Auction Galleries

Photography

Sylvie Penichon, Conservator of Photographs, Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Appraising Political Art: What Matters More - The Artist or the Subject?

Meredith Meuwly, ISA AM, Director of Appraisal Services, Heritage Auctions

ARC Breakout Speakers

Native American Basketry and Artifacts

Gaylord Torrence, Curator Native American Collections, Nelson-Atkins Museum

Navigating the Rare Book Trade: History, Identification and Strategies for Collection Appraisal

Mary Kohnke, Director of Rare Books and Manuscripts at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers

Holy Smoke- Russian Roulette

James Jackson, President and CEO, Jackson's International Auctioneers and Appraisers

Antique Toys

Noel Barrett, Appraiser, Antiques Roadshow. Owner, Noel Barret Antiques

Flow Blue - the Bluest and the Best. What is its History and what makes it Valuable? 

Richard Wisner, ISA CAPP, Wisner's Appraisal Services

Attendees can earn up to 14.75 professional development credits.

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Michael Findlay, Director of Acquavella Galleries, to Speak at ISA Conference

ISA is pleased to announce that Michael Findlay, Director of Acquavella Galleries will be a keynote speaker at our annual conference, Assets 2014 in Kansas City, April 25-28. 

Findlay will be speaking on the value of fine and decorative arts as he relates accounts from his book “The Value of Art” and through personal knowledge from many years of gallery and auction house specialist experience.

Findlay's presentation at the ISA appraisal conference is timely, as Acquavella Galleries recently set a new record for the highest price paid for a piece of art purchased at auction.  The painting by Francis Bacon, “Three Studies of Lucian Freud”, oil on canvas, in 3 parts, painted in 1969 was offered for sale through Christie’s. It sold to Acquavella for $142.4 million.  The new record topped the previous auction record set at Sotheby’s in 2012 for the Scream by Edvard Munch by over $20 million. A week earlier, Acquavella purchased a Giacometti bronze also the top selling lot at Sotheby's Impressionist Modern sale for $50 million.

$142.4 Million Triptych by Francis Bacon is most expensive artwork ever sold at auction.

Bloomberg News reported on the sale “Closely held Christie’s estimated the 1969 Bacon triptych - - three canvases depicting artist Lucian Freud -- at more than $85 million. At least half a dozen competed for it, including two Asian bidders, over six minutes. Acquavella bought it through Lock Kresler, Christie’s head of private sales based in London.”

Michael Findlay was one of the earliest art dealers to establish a gallery in SoHo, New York.  In 1984 Findlay became the Head of Impressionist and Modern Paintings at Christie's and in 2000 became its International Director of Fine Arts. Since 2000 he has been a director at Acquavella Galleries, New York, which in recent years has held major exhibitions of important Impressionist, modern, and contemporary masters.

In addition to his responsibilities at Acquavella Galleries, Findlay is also a noted and acclaimed author. His book “The Value of Art” has been well received by appraisers and the art community while his commentary and expertise on the art market is highly solicited. The newest edition of his book will be published just before the ISA conference and signed copies will be available for purchase.

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