Located in a townhouse on the Upper Eastside in New York City, Edelman Arts specializes in the secondary market sales and placement of artworks in a broad range of genres, from Impressionist, Modern, Post-War, Photography, and Contemporary Art. Edelman Arts curates exhibitions, both independently and collaboratively since 2001. Through its affiliates, Art Assure and Artemus’ innovative financing and leasing models, a fresh approach to ownership is available to private collectors, dealers, real estate developers, offices, retail establishment, and hotels. The Edelman Arts, Artemus, and Art Assure model offers power to buyers, sellers, and collectors. HISTORY Founder, Asher Edelman, began collecting in the early 1960s and by the mid-1980s, he had accumulated one of the preeminent and visionary contemporary art collections of its time. A close friend of Léo Castelli and Ileana Sonnabend, he set trends and many of the artists he collected early on would become the major icons in the art world. The artists included Jasper Johns, Brice Marden, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Chamberlain, Lucio Fontana and Keith Haring, to name a few. In 1991, Asher opened the Musée d’Art Contemporain (FAE) in Lausanne, which presented the first European retrospectives of seminal contemporary American artists, such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Mapplethorpe and Peter Halley. “Picasso Contemporain,” an exhibition of the artist’s post-war work is still considered an unparalleled exploration of Picasso as a transmitter, interpreter, and prophet of the ideas and techniques of Post War art. The trailblazing group exhibition, “Post Human,” co-curated by Chantal Prod’Hom and Jeffrey Deitch at FAE, helped define a new figurative movement and vision with artists such as Paul McCarthy, Matthew Barney, Mike Kelley, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons and many more. 2001 marked the creation of Edelman Arts, now located at 111 East 70th Street. Through its affiliates, Artemus and Art Assure LLC, Edelman Arts has unique access to investment quality artworks, prior to reaching the public market, as well as the ability to advise clients on purchases and sales of artwork. Through Artemus’ innovative financing and leasing models, a fresh approach is available to private collectors and dealers. Edelman Arts has launched more than 35 exhibitions since the early part of the century, including its 2005 Beuys exhibition of ‘The blackboards of “Is It About a Bicycle” (which Edelman arranged to be gifted to the DIA Foundation), “Jackson Pollock Paintings and Works on Paper,” and “Early Matta Works,” among many others
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