Private Art Advisory & Curatorial Services
Home and Office Art Assessment
A visit to your home or office to read the collection where it lives: what you have, what it needs, and what the rooms could hold.
The fee
Priced to the collection and the journey.
Confirmed before the visit, and credited toward a qualifying acquisition.
From $750 per visit
A morning or an afternoon, depending on the collection
Between $750 and $1,500, depending on the size of the collection and the travel involved. The fee is confirmed before the visit.
Consultation fees may be credited once toward a qualifying artwork acquisition of $10,000 or more made through Aldo Castillo Gallery within twelve months.
What is included
- A visit to your home or office at a time that suits you
- A walk through the rooms with Aldo, work by work
- Notes on condition, framing, lighting and placement
- Recommendations for the rooms: what to keep, what to move, what the collection needs next
- Introductions to the framers, lighting specialists and installers the gallery uses for its own walls
What it is
The collection, read in the rooms it lives in.
A collection looks different where it hangs. Aldo walks the rooms with you, work by work, and reads what the light, the walls and the furniture are doing to each piece. He says what to keep where it is, what to move, what to reframe or relight, and what the rooms are still asking for.
The visit is charged for Aldo's time and travel. Any acquisition that follows is a separate decision, and the fee may be credited toward it.
How it works
A visit, then a plan for the rooms.
You describe the rooms and the collection.
How many works, how many rooms, and where they are. Aldo confirms the fee before the visit.
Aldo visits.
A morning or an afternoon in the rooms, work by work, with notes on condition, framing, lighting and placement.
You receive his recommendations.
What to keep, what to move, what the collection needs next, and introductions to the trades the gallery uses for its own walls.
Questions collectors ask
Before you book.
What does the assessment cost?
Between $750 and $1,500, depending on the size of the collection and the travel involved. Aldo confirms the fee before the visit, and the gallery invoices afterwards; nothing is paid online.
Does the fee count toward a purchase?
Yes. Consultation fees may be credited once toward a qualifying artwork acquisition of $10,000 or more made through Aldo Castillo Gallery within twelve months.
What should be ready before the visit?
Nothing needs to be moved. If you have invoices, certificates or provenance documents for the works, have them to hand; they help with condition and attribution questions.
The services
Other ways to work with Aldo.
- CuratorialArt Placement and Curatorial ConsultationFrom $1,000 per projectRecommendations, placement, measurements and presentation concepts for a room, a residence or a commercial space.Book a consultation
- AdvisoryArt Sourcing and Acquisition AdvisoryA fixed project fee or an agreed percentageFinding the right work, wherever it is: from the gallery, the artists it represents or the wider market, with any compensation disclosed.Begin a search
- AdvisoryInitial ConsultationComplimentaryA thirty minute conversation about what you have, what you are looking for, and how Aldo can help. Especially for existing collectors.Book a consultation
- AdvisoryPrivate Consultation$300 per hourAldo Castillo's advice on what to acquire, what to pass over and what a collection needs next, at the gallery, in your rooms or by video call.Book a consultation
- CuratorialResidential and Commercial ProjectsA flat advisory fee, quoted to the scopeArt for a whole residence, a lobby or an office, from concept to installation, under one agreed fee.Discuss a project
Begin
Invite Aldo to see the rooms.
Say where the collection is and when suits you, and he will write to you personally to confirm the visit and its fee.
Book a consultation
Home and Office Art Assessment
- The fee
- From $750 per visit
- How long
- A morning or an afternoon, depending on the collection
- Toward an acquisition
- Consultation fees may be credited once toward a qualifying artwork acquisition of $10,000 or more made through Aldo Castillo Gallery within twelve months.
- Or speak to us
- (312) 375-8887art@aldocastillogallery.com
Aldo confirms every time personally. Nothing is paid online; the gallery invoices once the consultation is confirmed.