Corporate art collections :

Appleyard, Charlotte.

Corporate art collections : a handbook to corporate buying / Charlotte Appleyard and James Salzmann. - Farnham, UK ; Burlington, VT : Lund Humphries in association with Sotheby's Institute of Art, 2012. - 143 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm. - Handbooks in international art business .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-140) and index.

Introduction : The development of the modern corporate collection -- Part I. The collections : Beginning our tour ; Group 1. Emblematic collections : Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited; Standard Bank; General Mills; Cazenove & Co. ; Group 2. Environmental enrichment : Deloitte (London); Pictet & Cie; Deutsche Bank; SImmons & Simmons; Hiscox ; Group 3. Patronage : Abraaj Capital; Deloitte (Luxembourg); British Airway ; Group 4. All-rounders : Progressive Insurance; Louis Vuitton; Monsoon -- Part II. Change, crisis, finance and what lies beyond : The art of disposals / Catherine Higgs ; Dispersal case study: The Sara Lee Collection ; The art of taxes / Catherine Higgs and James Salzmann ; Dispersal case study: The Fleming Collection -- Starting a corporate collection -- Appendix : Selected interviews with consultants and artists.

This volume offers a guide to corporate collecting, examining its history, nature and importance, and the different reasons for starting and maintaining corporate collections.

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Corporations--Art collections.
Corporations--Art collections--Case studies.
Art museums--Collection management.
Art museums--Collection management--Case studies.
Art patronage.

N5206 / .A67 2012