Deborah Gerstler Spanierman
Contact
Featured Appraisal
1921 Delle Miller Oil Painting
Biography
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 artist’s 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., now Deborah Gerstler Spanierman & Associates 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, as in division of property in a divorce or business dissolution and basis for collateral loans; 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 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.
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is an antiques appraisal event and television production; we do not buy or sell objects, and conducting any business with an appraiser at the ANTIQUES ROADSHOW event is strictly forbidden.
If you decide to do business with an appraiser who has appeared on ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, please keep in mind these tips before consigning or selling an item:
-Get more than one referral and check references
-Get valuations of your item from more than once source
-Compare options between different types of sellers, i.e., a dealer versus an auction house
-If you are considering consigning an object for auction, be sure to inquire how the item will be priced, the size of the fee, and the expected amount of time the process may take. Find out what will happen if it doesn't sell.
-Check the appraiser's professional associations (such as International Society of Appraisers, American Appraisers Association, National Auctioneers Association)
-Consult an attorney before signing a contract
-Whatever kind of transaction you decide to enter into, always get a detailed written receipt for your records
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW’s pool of experts are professionals with a wide range of experience in the antiques, fine art and collectibles community, and they are from a diverse background of auctioneers, dealers and appraisers.
All ROADSHOW appraisers are independent volunteers who donate their time and expertise to PBS and who pay their own expenses to be on the show. All business transactions are independent from ANTIQUES ROADSHOW.
Recent Appraisals
appraisal
Charles Ebert Maine Islands Oil Seascape, ca. 1930
appraisal
Watercolor Copy of Harrison Fisher Illustration
appraisal
Käthe Kollwitz Print & Self-portrait Drawing, ca. 1925
AR Extras
A weekly collection of previews, videos, articles, interviews, and more!
