Audit
Review the collection's composition, quality, documentation, market exposure, and areas requiring attention.
Collections · Estates · Archives
The whole story is the asset.
A significant collection is more than a group of objects. Its strength may live in provenance, scholarship, relationships between works, documentation, cultural history, and the decisions that shaped it over time.
01 · Collection intelligence
Understand the collection before deciding its future.
House of Eight reviews collections at both object and portfolio level. We identify strengths, gaps, documentation needs, market concentration, and the works that carry the collection's central story.
That understanding can support acquisition planning, insurance review, estate administration, equitable distribution, institutional stewardship, or a thoughtful program of sales.
Works, records & artist marketsReference imagery · Availability shared privately
02 · Archives
An archive can hold value beyond individual objects.
We assess the content, condition, organization, provenance, scholarship, intellectual property, historical relevance, and market context of archives and cultural holdings.
Depending on the mandate, the work may include inventory review, valuation, research priorities, documentation standards, narrative development, and recommendations for stewardship, placement, or further study.
03 · Collection servicesScaled to the mandate
Organize
Bring together object records, provenance, images, valuations, publications, and supporting material.
Plan
Develop a practical path for growth, stewardship, division, disposition, or institutional placement.
Implement
Coordinate specialists, documentation, transactions, and ongoing collection activity.
Discuss a collection or archiveHandled privately
Begin with what exists and what needs to happen next.
Share the scale of the collection or archive, its current state of organization, and the decision it must support. We will help define the appropriate first review.
Begin a private inquiryinquiries@houseofeight.art