About me
Legally allowed to work in the UK. Art Business Masters at Sotheby’s Institute of Art (with Merit); particular research passion regarding Provenance and Restitution. Extensive background in Art History and Law, including the application of legal skills to Holocaust Claims Restitution and Reparations. Experience practicing Restitution and Provenance Research and Art Business.
However, passionate regarding all art; for instance I have up-and-coming artists I am dying to come to the light. Bilingual: Proficient in French, and basic German.
My first job out of Uni was at the Elizabeth Dee gallery. I am amiable, hard-working, well-rounded in all aspects of art and Art History, have been an EA at a highly prestigious boutique New York law firm and thus can multi-task quite well. I was a ballet dancer for twenty years, competed in Chopin Nocturne competitions and am writing a novel.
I just harbour a passion for art from Old Masters to Russian constructivism to DaDA and Surrealism (particularly Giacometti’s period) and Futurism...of course Courbet and Rodin’s breaking through sexuality’s barriers.
Projects
- Picasso & Mourão: Collage and Insight into its Artistic Production BY MOUNTGALLERYPOSTED ON FEBRUARY 14, 2020 - Discovering Artists’ Personality Profiles in the Works of Analagous Mediums by Danielle L. Newns FeinThis article explores the nature of the exhibitory climate in London at the moment, focusing on Pablo Picasso and Olivier Mourao's formal work with collage. Comparing and contrasting two artists’ qualitative approaches to the medium of paper collage, the post ultimately allows the reader to decide as to whether or not different fundamental personality traits/demeanours play a role in the aesthetics with which the viewer is presented.
Work history
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Art Specialist / Art Sales / ProvenanceMount Gallery
London, United KingdomFreelance
• Research and promotion of artists exhibited at Mount Gallery, inclusive of aiding in writing of Press Releases and other literature to be shared with the public.
• In charge of sales to potential collectors/purchasers of works exhibited by Mount Gallery.
• Contributing Advisor to curation for exhibits.
• Write articles regarding current exhibits to be published for the Gallery.
Restitution Department InternSotheby’s
- London, United KingdomInternship
• Conducted Provenance Research and Restitution work reporting to Marie Stolberg utilising a myriad of online
databases as well as in-depth research on hard copy primarily performed at The Witt Library.
• Vetted pieces for auction regarding gaps in provenance, particularly specialising in the period of 1933-1945, though
not only thereto.
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Skills
- Art Business
- Art History
- Law
- Sales
- Art Consulting
- Art Curation
- Art Criticism
- Art Gallery
- Academic Research
Education
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MASotheby's Institute of Art London
- London, United Kingdom
I completed the core curriculum inclusive of 'Navigating the Art World,' as well as other subjects for my Art Business Master's. For a hypothetical project, Sotheby’s Institute of Art MAAB (MA Art Business), students were to complete a 'Collections' project. The project was to design a space within specified parameters and to 'buy' a number of works within a specifically designated budget in order to create a coherent and thematic exhibition. One had to explain reasoning for all decisions, a background for our 'seller' as well as write the accompanying text for each work chosen to enhance viewers' experience. My exhibition was a thematic progression. Final Dissertation: entitled 'Perpetrations on the Perpetrators: Positing Whether Levels of National Guilt or Embarrassment May Attribute to German Reluctance to Induce Sound Art Restitution Claims.' The work regards Allied looting just post-WWII: whether there exists a level of personal or collective embarrassment that may deter German citizens in particular from the pursuit of restitution claims.
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J.D LawBenjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
- New York, United States
I completed the core curriculum (Torts, Civil Procedure and Contracts for example), I included Corporations, Trust & Estates and other important courses (Art Law). I partook in as many seminars as possible (a student need only complete one). These included: 'Trials on Film,' 'Vichy, Europe and the Holocaust,' a placement for a coveted spot in the Holocaust Claims Restitution Practicum, 'Law and Literature' on summer holiday in Austria, and in Berlin the next summer 'Law and Religion. 'Dynamic Jurisprudence' was also interesting with Schlink. I was chosen to be the Research Assistant for Peter Goodrich, the head of Law and Humanities, for whom I primarily worked on editing text (Latin came in handy) and obtaining images from around the world and use permissions therefor for the 2014 Cambridge University Press publication of 'Legal Emblems and the Art of Law: Obiter Depicta as the Vision of Governance,' since translated into over six languages. I am proud to be in the 'Acknowledgments.'
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