A work is worth exactly what can be proven about it.

• The collection grows, yet there is no single registry with provenance and documents for each work.
• The history of ownership lives in receipts, letters and memory, not in an assembled dossier.
• A sale, a loan or insurance lies ahead — and the counterparty will require provable clean title.

What the House does

Provenance is the documented history of a work’s ownership; clean title is the provable right to it. The House assembles the collection registry, restores and sets out the provenance, and brings each work to AML-readiness for a transaction — before going to market, not during it. Where documents are to be drafted, licensed counsel drafts them — instructed and supervised by the House. Counsel answers for the document; the House answers for the result.

• A single collection registry: the work, the title, the valuation, the location.
• Documentation of provenance and the history of ownership for each work.
• Verification and recording of clean title before the transaction.
• An AML dossier to the requirements of auction houses, dealers, banks and insurers.
• Preparation of a pack accepted by the buyer and the counterparty to the transaction.

What you get: a single collection registry — a card for each work with title, valuation and location · documented provenance for each work · confirmed clean title · an AML dossier to the requirements of auction houses, banks and insurers

Why this way and not another

• An art adviser knows the works but does not keep a registry or an AML dossier to counterparties’ requirements.
• The history of ownership is assembled in haste before the transaction — and the buyer finds gaps.
• Without provable provenance a work loses value or does not reach the transaction at all.

What worries you — and the House’s answer

• “Provenance can’t be confirmed, and the work will lose value.” — The House restores and documents the history of ownership in advance, before going to market.
• “The buyer will find a gap in the title.” — Clean title is verified and recorded before the transaction, not during it.
• “The counterparty’s AML check will stall the sale.” — The AML dossier is assembled to the requirements of auction houses and banks in advance.

Where this leads

The collection is gathered into a registry, provenance documented, title clean, the AML pack ready. The bank, the insurer and the buyer read the history of ownership as proven. A work is worth what can be proven about it — and now everything can be proven.