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Artwork appraisals in Colorado for donations, estate tax, insurance, and divorce, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises paintings, sculptures, photography, prints, and mixed media across Colorado, including Denver, Colorado Springs, and Boulder.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT ARTWORK APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, COLORADO COURTS, LENDERS, INSURERS, AND MORE.
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Owner & CEO
Joe founded AppraiseItNow to make a certified, USPAP-compliant appraisal as simple to order as anything else online. A former Bain & Company strategy consultant, Joe leads the entire team and specializes in strategy, growth, and the firm's tech capabilities.
Personal Property Appraiser
ISA Accredited Member with 30 years in the trade, from running estate sales and an auction gallery to appraising luxury apparel, furniture, artwork, antiques, and business assets, primarily for IRS tax filings.
Personal Property Appraiser
ISA Accredited Member specializing in Asian art, with a Master's from SOAS and a Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art. Ashley chairs the ISA's Antiques, Furnishings, and Decorative Arts committee and appraises for charitable donation, insurance, and equitable distribution.
Client Success Manager
Manages each engagement from the first enquiry to the delivered report, and keeps you posted at every step along the way.
International Society of AppraisersAccredited Member
The Appraisal FoundationAuthorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standardsThree closed Colorado art assignments, each given its city and its purpose and nothing further. All three were handled from records and photographs. The pictures below are illustrations; the owners’ own works stay out of this page.
Insurance coverage
Framed prints valued for scheduling, each one identified by edition and condition so the carrier could set a limit.
Insurance claim
A signed pop art canvas damaged in the home, valued from completed sales of comparable works by the same artist for the owner’s claim.
Charitable donation
A series of portrait sessions donated to a nonprofit, valued at fair market value for the donor’s deduction file.
AppraiseItNow appraises photography, paintings, mixed media and sculpture in Colorado for gifts to charity, estate and trust filings, policy schedules, damage claims and divorce. Each file names the standard it was written to and the single date that standard speaks to.
Photography
A photograph’s value turns on the print rather than the image: which edition, which printing, what paper, and the condition of this particular impression. Two prints of one picture can sit far apart on those grounds alone.
Paintings and sculpture
Figures come from completed sales by the same artist, weighted for medium, period, scale and condition, with auction results and documented private transactions read together instead of one standing in for the other.
Gifts and estates
A Colorado gift or estate file is written so a reviewer who comes to it a year later can see the market, the date and the sales behind every number without calling anyone.
Damage and loss
After water, a fall or a fire, the question runs backward: what the piece was worth immediately before the loss, and what is left of that now. Condition, the artist’s market and what conservation can realistically restore all feed the figure the carrier is handed.
Two Colorado rules work on the value of a painting rather than on the painting: one fixes what a dealer owes when a work is damaged, the other decides what a donor can take off a state return.
Dealers
A written value
is what a Colorado dealer owes for a damaged work
When an artist delivers a work of their own creation to a Colorado art dealer for exhibition or sale, the dealer becomes the artist’s agent, the work is trust property, and neither it nor the proceeds can be reached by the dealer’s creditors. The dealer is also strictly liable for loss of or damage to the work while it is in the dealer’s possession, and the statute sets the value for that purpose as the value established in a written agreement between artist and dealer before the loss. Without that written figure, the one part of the claim that should have been settled in advance is the amount.
Donations
$500
comes off a Colorado charitable subtraction
Colorado allows a charitable contribution subtraction to taxpayers who claim the basic federal standard deduction and so cannot deduct the gift federally. The subtraction is the year’s qualifying contributions less five hundred dollars, the gift has to meet the federal qualifications and go to a qualified organization, and property counts at fair market value on the date of the contribution rather than at what it cost. The state follows the federal rule that a noncash claim above five thousand dollars, for one item or a group of similar items, generally calls for an appraisal.
Colorado Department of Revenue, Income Tax Topics: Charitable Contributions
What clients say we are known for
Across 80+ published AppraiseItNow reviews the picture is consistent: every one is from a client who paid us for an appraisal, and the three things they raise most often are that they would hire us again, how quickly we answer, and how much research is visible in the report.
The appraisal was done very well. Since he was a local artist here in Charleston, SC, they took the time to study and review Jim Booth’s art. His work has made him extremely famous, which can make an appraisal challenging, but they did a superb job and clearly explained how they arrived at the appraisal value. I highly recommend Appraise It Now and will use them again for all my artwork.
Artwork Appraisal for Insurance Coverage
AppraiseItNow did an excellent job appraising our unique art collection. Joe was always prompt and responsive, and he and his team delivered a thorough, well-supported appraisal in just a couple of weeks, even during the holiday season. I was genuinely impressed. Thank you for the great work!
Artwork Appraisal for Insurance Coverage
AppraiseItNow was amazing! My father passed with a large volume of artwork & I had no idea what it was worth. Their team was incredibly helpful and quick to respond with text and/or email to any questions as well as a status update along the way. Highly recommend!
Artwork Appraisal for Probate
I recently requested a retroactive appraisal for fine art from AppraiseItNow. I received excellent service from intake to delivery. The appraisal was delivered on time and the content of the appraisal absolutely met my expectations!
Artwork Appraisal
From the start they were very responsive, price competitive, and had a quick turn around time. Thank you so much to Joe who was very sweet in responding to my emails; I am looking forward to utilizing AppraiseItNow for many years to come.
Very thorough and professional — great communication and outstanding service. Highly impressed with their work!
Given the USPAP-compliant nature of AppraiseItNow’s appraisal reports, we prepare our deliverables for major legal, tax, and financial reporting purposes for individual and commercial clients.
Popular uses of our appraisal reports include:
From auction record databases and dealer systems such as Artnet, Artprice, AskART, and the archives of the major auction houses. Comparable sales analysis is the default method whenever an active secondary market exists, and our appraisers document the specific comparables and adjustments behind each conclusion.
A qualified appraisal and Form 8283, Section B, for art donations claimed over $5,000, and the IRS Art Advisory Panel routinely reviews donations of $50,000 or more. Requirements are laid out by IRS Art Appraisal Services, and the appraisal must disclose the method and comparables relied upon.
It must be inventoried at fair market value, and Colorado probate requires that inventory generally within three months of the personal representative's appointment. Colorado mandates no particular appraisal form and has no probate referee system, so estates typically retain a private appraiser to document the values.
No. Article X, section 3(c) of the Colorado Constitution exempts household furnishings and personal effects that are never used to produce income, which covers art hanging in a private residence. The exemption ends where income begins: gallery inventory, and even artwork furnishing a short-term rental home, can be classified as taxable personal property.
