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ART SALES

    Our primary business is selling art. What distinguishes us from auction houses and most other galleries is the wide range of services we can provide to our collectors.

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QUALITY OF WORKS AVAILABLE

    As the leading Latin American art gallery in the world, mam/fa is well known for the museum quality works it makes available to collectors. We focus on masterworks from the 20th century by the most important artists of Mexico and Latin America. Our reputation for quality, integrity and expertise ensures that collectors and institutions wanting to sell works in this field come to Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art.

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CONTEMPORARY WORKS

    While mam/fa specializes in masterworks of the 20th century, we also handle works by important contemporary artists from Latin America. It is not unusual at mam/fa to see a work of Diego Rivera or Frida Kahlo hanging next to works by contemporary Latin American artists like Botero, Bravo or Morales. mam/fa also represents a small number of contemporary artists whom we feel will be regarded as tomorrow's masters. At this time we are the US representatives for Alfredo Castañeda, Elena Climent and Gunther Gerzso. For more information on these artists, please visit our artists page.

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LOCATING WORKS FOR COLLECTORS

    Because of our pivotal position in creating the market for Latin American pictures in this country twenty years ago, we have access to private collections around the world. Many important works were placed in these collections by mam/fa over the years and we can frequently locate works that are not currently on the market. If there is a specific work in which you are interested or a type of work you are seeking, please let us know.

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CONSIGNMENTS

    Not all art for sale in galleries is necessarily owned inventory. A work may be consigned by its owner to a gallery which earns a commission when it sells the piece. By consigning a work to mam/fa, a collector can take advantage of our sales experience and expertise and still be assured of receiving the highest possible return for his work. A particular advantage of consigning property to an art gallery, as opposed to an auction house, is that the work is handled discretely and offered only to the collectors most likely to buy. For this reason the work is not burned on the open market if it is not sold. Works which fail to sell at public auction are usually much more difficult to sell afterward and frequently need a cooling down period of a year or more.

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CLIENT SERVICES


MUSEUM SERVICES

    mam/fa has traditionally been an important resource for museums curators planning to acquire or exhibit Latin American art. We have helped museums all around the world locate lost works for exhibitions, since our wide collector contacts have frequently put us in the position of knowing where things are. Collectors can count on our discretion as we never reveal the location of works without first obtaining the owner's permission. In some cases we have acted as the lender's agent with the museum, thus preserving the collector's privacy while enabling the public to view a work that would otherwise have remained hidden away in a private collection. We are frequently called upon to negotiate the terms of loans with collectors, provide insurance appraisals for works being lent by collectors to museums, and for works going from one museum to another. In several cases we have provided insurance valuations for entire exhibitions. Since the founding of mam/fa, Mary-Anne Martin has acted as the special advisor to a number of prestigious shows, among them Diego Rivera, the Cubist Years, at the Phoenix Art Museum and IBM Gallery, NY in 1984, the Diego Rivera Retrospective traveling show organized in 1985 by the Detroit Institute of Arts, the 1988 Tamayo exhibition organized by the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Frida Kahlo traveling exhibition held in Tokyo by Seibu in 1989, Mexico, Splendors of Thirty Centuries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1990, Mexican Renaissance (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros) at Nagoya City (Japan) Art Museum in 1989 and the Rufino Tamayo Retrospective organized by Nagoya in 1993 and, most recently, the forthcoming Leonora Carrington exhibition planned for 1997 by the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper organization.

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