LIZ KLEIN

For three decades, Liz Klein has provided short- and long-term advice, strategy and access for influential private and institutional collectors around the globe, guiding them in their holdings of modern, post-war and contemporary art.

With an MBA from Columbia University, Liz has initiated and negotiated acquisitions, loans and sales totaling more than $1 billion on behalf of her clients, including important artworks by Adrian Piper, Agnes Martin, Alice Neel, Andy Warhol, Arshile Gorky, Brice Marden, Dana Schutz, David Hammons, Ed Ruscha, Ellsworth Kelly, Eva Hesse, Fernand Leger, Frank Stella, Franz Kline, George Luks, Gerhard Richter, Giorgio de Chirico, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Mitchell, John Baldessari, Julie Mehretu, KAWS, Lucian Freud, Marcel Broodthaers, Mark Rothko, Martin Wong, Michaël Borremans, Pablo Picasso, Piero Manzoni, Philip Guston, Rene Magritte, Richard Diebenkorn, Sarah Lucas, Yayoi Kusama, Yves Klein and dozens of other modern, postwar and contemporary European and American artists.

She works closely with clients to help them develop and articulate their collecting interests as well as their aesthetic, philanthropic and financial priorities. Her multi-year engagements with a select cadre of private clients and institutions is built on trust earned through Liz’s emphasis on listening, discretion, independent advice and a commitment to non-competing interests. She places a high value on client-education, due diligence and on research-driven decision-making.

As a tastemaker in contemporary art, as an authority on the art market and as a curator, Liz’s advisory projects have made an impact on vital public institutions through her introduction of and advocacy for established and emerging artists, leading to critical acquisitions and gifts, institutional support and museum exhibitions.

She is frequently invited to speak at seminars for family offices, private banks, law firms, and executors of significant trusts and estates on topics including the aesthetics and economics of collecting, market trends, the process of deaccessioning, etc.

Since 1994, Liz has held various leadership roles as a patron of The Museum of Modern Art & MoMA PS1, including as an Invited Member of The Director’s Circle and Founding Chair of the A+D Circle; as an Invited Member of Acquisitions Committee of The Bronx Museum of the Arts; as a Founding Advisor of The American Council for Cultural Policy; and as ex-officio trustee of Independent Curators International.

Liz’s professional experience prior to the founding of Reiss Klein Partners includes various roles at Christie’s and later Sotheby’s, where she rose to the rank of Senior Vice-President, and years working as part of a three-person team developing, maintaining and installing collections of 6,000+ works of art for clients including: a U.S. Fortune 500 multi-national corporation with a diverse portfolio of luxury brands; the United Nations Ambassador’s Residence; The New York Hospital; the chair of The Museum of Modern Art and founder of Neue Galerie New York.