The Name
It describes the order in which we work. Research comes first. Sourcing follows from it. The solution is whatever a particular client needs, which may be a purchase, a sale, or the advice to wait.
Our Research Team
RSAS employs a dedicated team of art market researchers. Their task is to find out what an artist's market actually looks like, not what anyone would like it to look like. They speak directly to galleries and studios, follow sales across the major and regional auction houses, and verify private transactions wherever the evidence allows.
Between them, they bring experience from auction houses, commercial galleries, museum collections, art history and data analysis. An art historian reads a career differently from an analyst reading a sales record, and the most useful research brings the two together. Every report is checked by a second researcher, every figure is traced to its source, and anything we cannot verify is labelled as such.
The research team does not sell. Its findings are written before any commercial conversation takes place, and they are never altered to suit a sale.
Our Network
Over a few years, our team has built working relationships with commercial galleries, artists' studios, auction specialists, private dealers, fine art shippers, installers, specialist insurers, conservators and storage providers in London, Gibraltar and across Europe. Those relationships give our clients access to work before it is widely offered, and to the specialists who keep a collection in good order.
What We Stand For
Evidence before opinion
We say what the data shows, and we say plainly when it shows very little.
Both markets, always
Gallery prices and resale results tell different stories. We read them side by side.
Selective by design
We turn down more artists than we take on, and work with a limited number of clients at a time.
Open about our interests
If we have a stake in a work, you will know before you read a word of our research.