Deborah Gerstler Spanierman
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Deborah Gerstler Spanierman, AAA, has been a specialist in American paintings, drawings and sculpture for over 35 years. She is certified by the Appraisers Association of America in that area and accredited in postwar, contemporary and emerging art, and fine art prints. She has experience in both the auction and retail markets.
Spanierman began her career trajectory in 1987 at Sotheby’s, New York, in the American paintings, drawings and sculpture department, where she was the department assistant, and rose to cataloguer, including all duties of cataloguing works of art for sale, including research and valuation, auction catalogue production, and preparing for quarterly auctions.
From 1993 and 2002, she was associate director of Spanierman Gallery, LLC, a major New York gallery specializing in American 19th- and early 20th-century paintings, drawings, and sculpture, as well as artists' estates. There she sold art to private collectors, museums and corporations nationwide; acquired works for sale either by purchase or consignment; curated exhibitions in the gallery and for traveling venues; and managed artists’ estates.
From 2007 to the present, Spanierman has been president of DGS Fine Art Consultants, Inc., a fine art appraisal, art brokerage, and advisory company. In her appraisal practice, she regularly prepares USPAP-compliant fine art appraisals for insurance schedules; damage/loss claims; estate planning; settlement of estate taxes; non-cash charitable donation; equitable distribution; litigation support; and expert witness services. In her advisory practice, she helps new and seasoned collectors buy and sell works of art and develop new areas of interest; performs market research; helps with research and documentation of works of art; and assists with framing, installation, and conservation.
Spanierman is a past-president of the board of directors of the Appraisers Association of America. She has been quoted in Artsy.net, Maine Antiques Digest, Westchester Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and has appeared as an appraiser on ANTIQUES ROADSHOW since 2014. Most recently, Spanierman served on the editorial committee and as an author for the Appraisers Association of America’s publication Appraising: The Definitive Guide to Valuing Fine Art, Decorative Arts, & Collectibles. Spanierman is a committee member of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being coordinated by the Willard LeRoy Metcalf Catalogue Raisonné Project, Inc., along with Betty Krulik and Dr. Lisa N. Peters.
Recent Appraisals
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Watercolor Copy of Harrison Fisher Illustration
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Käthe Kollwitz Print & Self-portrait Drawing, ca. 1925
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1921 Delle Miller Oil Painting
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