Know what you own

An independent expert valuation and condition report, prepared to institutional standard — for insurance, estate division, donation, or the decision to sell. When the number must come from someone with no stake in it.

Every report is grounded in forensic examination: materials, construction, condition history.

— Selected by SGS, the world’s leading inspection and certification company, to lead its Art Services division in China.

Prove what you own

Provenance research and due diligence that stands up to legal scrutiny: ownership history, archival research across European collections and registries, identification of fakes and forgeries. Where a case requires specialist counsel, Holmes draws on the international ARCA network of art crime professionals.

For acquisitions, inheritance, restitution questions and disputes.

— SGS Art Services: third-party forensic analysis and forgery identification in the Chinese art market — then 39% of the global art trade.

Protect what you own

Collection care to the standard of a national museum: storage and display conditions, preventive conservation, disaster planning, and documentation insurers accept. At home, in storage, or across residences.

— Responsible for the long-term preservation of Singapore’s National Collection — nine public museums.

Acquire with certainty

Pre-purchase examination and acquisition advisory: condition, authenticity and provenance verified before money moves.

This includes private access to documented shipwreck collections for qualified collectors.

— Advised Singapore’s National Heritage Board on the acquisition of new collections.