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on Rodeo Drive for more than 30 years. To achieve that goal, the gallery's in-house art market experts, scholars, and ﬁnancial strategists assist each client in developing a collecting strategy. Each piece is backed by a Galerie Michael Certiﬁcate of Authenticity and comes with a complimentary certiﬁed appraisal for tax and insurance purposes. The staff assists clients in featuring works in scholarly catalogs and international exhibitions to increase the notoriety and value of their private collection. That commitment to quality is even evident in the gallery's own collecting philosophy. The vast majority of Galerie Michael's inventory is owned, with a distinct eye toward "only fairmarket-value-quality works in the upper 20 percent of each artist's oeuvre," Schwartz says. In keeping with the gallery's enduring commitment to ﬁne-art scholarship, clients are encouraged to attend the gallery's frequent lectures by art historians, museum curators, authors, and artists (among them, Alexandre Renoir, the Impressionist's great-grandson and a revered artist who is exclusively represented by Galerie Michael). The gallery's staff often leads clients on custom ﬁne-art tours, both at local museums and abroad. Perhaps most notably, Schwartz has cultivated unparalleled long-term personal relationships with the families of Renoir, Cézanne, Pissarro, Picasso, and numerous other Impressionist and Modern masters. "We have always relied directly on artists, their families, and dedicated scholars in our work," says Schwartz. "Relationships are essential in building a museum-quality collection, one work at a time." This mantra, this heritage, has always distinguished Galerie Michael from the rest. From left: inside the elegant Galerie Michael; the exterior Galerie Michael 430 North Rodeo Drive Beverly Hills, CA 310.273.3377 galeriemichael.com Exit Metro Rapid Line 720 at Wilshire/ Beverly. See map on page 101; more information at metro.net. discoverLosAngeles.com 73 http://www.galeriemichael.com http://www.metro.net http://www.metro.net http://www.discoverLosAngeles.com

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