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Butera Art Advisory provides bespoke appraisals, sales advisory services, and collection management logistics for tangible assets, tailoring every engagement to the client’s specific needs with a white-glove approach. As an independent, impartial third party, we deliver fair, objective valuations, sales strategy, and collection management logistics for our clients—informed by industry expertise and fifteen years of experience. Our firm is built on a simple principle: clients come first. Butera Art Advisory offers art expertise and exceptional customer service, artfully guiding our clients through the complex and ever-changing worlds of the art market and collectibles market and trusts and estates.

Our team works across a spectrum of tangible assets, including fine art, decorative art, antiques, jewelry, collectibles, fine and rare wine, books and manuscripts, design, coins, stamps, classic cars and motorcycles and other tangible property. By working with Butera Art Advisory, clients gain access to our extensive network of experts and resources, including specialists with an average of 20+ years of experience. In 2025, our specialists appraised over $600 million in tangible assets.

Our Team

Alanna Fabbri Butera, MA

HEAD OF APPRAISALS AND ADVISORY, PRESIDENT

Virginia Fabbri Butera, Ph.D. (Ginny)

Vice President and Head of Curatorial Projects

Elyse Raneri

Appraisal Manager

Will Mancuso

Appraisal and Sales Advisory Project Manager, Consulting Appraiser

Some individuals and specialists listed provide services as independent contractors.

Alanna Fabbri Butera, MA

HEAD OF APPRAISALS AND ADVISORY, PRESIDENT

By leveraging her extensive experience in the art market and the appraisal process, Alanna provides exceptional service to her clients while working with them on appraisals, sales advisory and collection management for fine and decorative art and other tangible personal property.

At Butera Art Advisory, Alanna is in charge of Appraisal Services and Sales Advisory.

Alanna has worked at international art auction houses and leading independent appraisal and advisory firms and has serviced clients and their advisors in the valuation and disposition of art. As an art appraiser, she assisted clients with traditional art appraisals for estate, insurance, collateral, damage/loss and charitable contribution purposes with a focus on Modern, Postwar and Contemporary art. With her background in economics, she also specialized in complex art valuations such as artists’ estates and estate fractional discounting.

Alanna received her Master of Arts in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art (New York, NY) and her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Art History from the University of Pennsylvania. She has also taken courses in Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Art at New York University and completed the certificate program in American Furniture and Decorative Art at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware.

Alanna is a frequent lecturer on the art market, appraisal matters and planning for art and personal property collections. Recent presentations include:

“Understanding the Metrics of the Art Market” at the 2019 American Society of Appraisers (ASA) Personal Property Connoisseurship Conference (New York, NY)
“Art Demystified: An Inside Look into the Art Auction Market” at The Cornell Club of New York (New York, NY)
“The Untapped Collaboration – How Business and Art Appraisers Can Work Together” at the ASA New York and New Jersey Chapters

Alanna is an Accredited Member of the Appraisers Association of America.

Alanna speaks with One Art Nation about the auction sales process. Each client’s collection is unique and thus needs special attention and consideration. When advising a client during the sales process, BAAM looks nationally and internationally to identify the location and venue where each item will bring the highest price.