Paul D. Quatrochi. President Quatrochi Art Agents, Ltd.

Boasting 20 years of experience, Paul D. Quatrochi, President of Quatrochi Art Agents, Ltd., has served both private and institutional clients in meeting their curatorial objectives, and has counseled many world-class collections over the strategic and legal issues that run coextensive to the processes of collecting and deaccession within an international context, including issues of authenticity, and its corollaries in the complex laws of title, and cultural patrimony. Having such experience, Quatrochi Art Agents, Ltd. may serve as a liaison with insurers, underwriting syndicates, international law enforcement and customs agencies, as well as assisting as a 'pointman' in the processing of claims to all appropriate agencies and parties.

Having advised noted art investors of appraisal values, and correspondingly plotted resale schemes for strategic investment, as well as having advised collectors/buyers motivated by way of pure connoisseurship, Quatrochi is uniquely poised so as to advise each collector over the critical concern of both authenticity and title, thereby thwarting an array of possible legal quagmires by exercising a rigorous programme of due diligence contoured and tailored to the art collector /investor's specific needs. Such a protocol includes both art historical research and expertise, so as to assess the painting's authenticity, as well as a verification of provenance and all historical documentation--all processes essential to establish a chain of custody that may be extrapolated to the very artist's hand or, as the case may be, studio or circle. Further, research yields a profile of possible challenges to good title, including an investigation into the Art Loss Register database, Interpol, Scotland Yard, UNESCO, HARP, UCC searches as well as all private registries, with whom the firm has a rapport. These protocols appertain to all title concerns, including the WWII Holocaust Restitution Project, as well as a variety of compromises to title, thereby protecting the collector/investor from the unforseen hazards that endanger the untutored or inexperienced buyer/seller.

Having assisted the international art insurance, and reinsurance market, in prosecuting art fraud and theft, as well as having served as an expert witness in civil and criminal trials in both the U.S. and Europe, Quatrochi boasts a long standing relationship with international law enforcement, the global banking and insurance establishment, as well as the network of art scholars within the international art community. Further, a library of all case-law has been assembled, so as to allow Quatrochi and Quatrochi Art Agents, Ltd. to assist in all the matters and problematics of what has become known as Art Law.

With exceptional credentials and experience in the work of the School of Paris, Quatrochi has specialized in and has offered expertise on the body of work of Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), and currently is compiling a text and concourse of the expertise of the works of the artist.

Having studied as an undergraduate at Hobart College, and later post-baccalaureate work at the London School of Economics, Quatrochi went on to read in political economy at Nuffield College at Oxford University, and then continued his doctoral studies in philosophy, at The New School for Social Research. After working with the United States Foreign Service, Quatrochi served briefly as an intelligence operative before starting his business as an art agent in the service of aiding private concerns, with an extensive programme of art advisory services, coupled with his able skills of international troubleshooting and problem-solving. He has been profiled by newspapers and magazines in New York, Paris, London and Japan, including a new book by Editions Fayard in Paris entitled Razzia sur L'Art, a recent feature article in London written by The Mail on Sunday, as well as a forthcoming article in New York Magazine, being authored by Anthony Haden-Guest, as preparation for a screenplay concerning Quatrochi's varied experiences in the international art market.