Butera Art Advisory and Management, LLC is an independent firm completely devoted to the best interests of our clients and unconstrained by allegiances to auction houses, dealers or galleries.


Butera Art Advisory offers exceptional customer service and art expertise. We approach each project with our art market acumen, intellectual agility, scholarly knowledge, attention to detail and organizational skills. By working with Butera Art Advisory, clients gain access to our extensive network of specialists, experts and resources.

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.

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.

Virginia Fabbri Butera, Ph.D. (Ginny)

Vice President

Ginny received her B.A. in Renaissance Studies from Trinity College, Hartford, CT, her M.A. in History of Art from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. For over 25 years, she was the Professor of Art History, Chairperson of the Art Program and Director of an art gallery at a college in northern New Jersey.

Throughout her career, she has worked with and advised many collectors on purchasing art and building their collections. She has helped arrange, install and document collections. She regularly visits dozens of art galleries, artists’ spaces and museums in the USA and abroad and is familiar with the work of hundreds of contemporary artists. Located near New York City, Ginny is in a unique position to advise private and corporate collectors.

For more than forty years, she has curated art exhibitions for museums and galleries such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery and other prestigious institutions around the country. Ginny has lectured widely about art and has published articles in a variety of art magazines and has written essays and catalog entries for various artists’ gallery and museum catalogs. Introducing various aspects of art and the art world to her clients is one of her specialties.