Legacy & Transition-Focused Art Advisory

 

Yochim Arts offers valuation-led advisory services for moments of inheritance, transition, and consequential decision-making. This work takes place before irreversible actions—such as sale, donation, division, or restructuring—are undertaken.

 

Clients often arrive at these moments with urgency, emotional complexity, and incomplete information. This advisory practice provides clarity at the hinge point, helping individuals, families, fiduciaries, and institutions understand value, options, timing, and responsibility before decisions harden into outcomes.

Integrating rigorous valuation standards, real-world market fluency, and ethical independence, Yochim Arts supports thoughtful, defensible decisions aligned with long-term stewardship—particularly where art carries both financial and emotional significance.

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We provide:

 

Fine Art Appraisal & Valuation

All appraisals are prepared in compliance with USPAP standards and reflect rigorous research, market analysis, and ethical valuation practices.

 

Appraisal use include:

• Insurance (scheduling and claims)

• Damage and Loss

• Charitable donation

• Estate planning and tax-related use

• Collections management

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Fine Art Advisory & Brokerage

We advise and represent clients in the thoughtful de-accession and acquisition

of works of art, drawing on deep market knowledge and long-standing relationships.

 

Clients include:

• Individual collectors

• Wealth management advisors

• Attorneys and fiduciaries

• Corporations

• Insurance companies

• Artists

• Designers

• Museums and fine art institutions

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We work with paintings, prints, photographs, and sculpture, offering clients clarity, discretion, and informed market judgment. Engagements are tailored to each client’s needs, with an emphasis on clarity, confidentiality, and long-term stewardship.

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Featured artwork 

Urban Light by Chris Burden, LACMA

© Victor Decolongon/Getty Images