Behind many prominent and public art collections are experts helping buyers navigate the industry writes Jennifer Ennion in Harper’s Bazaar in their December 2025 edition.
She has also interviewed our very own David Hulme:
“…Buyers need someone immersed in the art world; someone who cannot only take them to the best places to buy a fine art painting, for example, but also assess its value.
David Hulme of Banziger Hulme Fine Art Consultants, Sydney, is a certified art valuer. He helps clients appraise, acquire and sell artwork, with a focus on fine art fit for museums. ‘The role that we created over the last 20 or so years is one where we are very interested in buying the best of the best’, says Hulme. ‘So we are looking at museum-quality art in the collecting that we’re doing.’
That said, Hulme is clear on ‘museum-quality art’ is, explaining that it can be one of Pablo Picasso’s most important paintings, worth tens of millions of dollars, as well as a hand-signed original etching with a much lower price tag of around $10,000. The focus is on quality, and longevity, which brings us to the importance of art advisory independence.
…. ‘you have to be able to discern the good from the bad, the wheat from the chaff’, says Hulme. ‘If you can’t do it yourself, that’s when you need somebody to advise you, and that’s where the skill of the art advisor really comes in, because we’ve just been doing it for so long. We have the experience and we want to share that knowledge.’….”
Here is the article if you would like to read more about what art consultants do.
Read more about the art consulting services of Banziger Hulme Fine Art Consultants.
