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Preview tiers, VIP programs, advisory, and how work actually changes hands.
CollectingFragile Beauté brings more than 300 prints from the Elton John and David Furnish collection to Paris after its V&A run. It closes this week, a month before Art Basel Paris, and it is a clear case of how a collector's holdings become a museum's program.
CollectingThe global art loan book is estimated between $28.7 and $33.3 billion for 2025 and forecast toward $40 billion this year. Nearly half of borrowers say the reason they borrow against their collection is to buy more of it.
CollectingCommission on purchase price, monthly retainers from £1,500 to £10,000, or hourly for a collection review. The fee model is public; the conflict it creates is the part nobody puts on a website.
CollectingAvant-Première in Paris, Basel Exclusive in Switzerland, and a Hong Kong edition that closed three quarters of its seven-figure business before the public arrived. The most important product the fairs sell is now a date, not a booth.