Four leading art market veterans have joined forces to launch New Perspectives Art Partners, an art consulting consortium targeting top-level collectors and institutions.

The group comprises Ed Dolman, former executive chairman and CEO of Phillips; Brett Gorvy, co-founder and partner of Lévy Gorvy Dayan and former chairman and international head of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s; Patti Wong of Hong Kong-based advisory Patti Wong & Associates and former chairman of Sotheby’s Asia; and Philip Hoffman, founder and chairman of The Fine Art Group and former deputy chief executive of Europe at Christie’s. They are joined by Dolman’s son Alex, a former auction specialist at Sotheby’s and Phillips who co-launched Dolman Partners with his father.

Describing themselves as a “groundbreaking collaboration,” New Perspectives is uniquely structured as an alliance, with each partner maintaining their own independent practice. They will unite to respond to clients on a project-by-project basis to “deliver highly personalized, strategic guidance across acquisitions, sales, collection management, investment, collateralization, and more.”

Dolman said to Artnet: “We knew we wanted to preserve our existing client relationships, but at the same time it’s also incredibly important to make sure that when clients speak to us they know they are speaking to the group.”

Speaking to The Peak Magazine, Gorvy commented on the group’s round-table approach: “Operating in a similar fashion to a management consulting firm, New Perspectives assembles to meet specific client needs to provide unbiased strategies across all available platforms to maximize the potential of their assets.”

Between them, the consortium has an estimated “350 clients operating at the very top of the market, with the capacity to spend USD 30 million on an object,” Gorvy estimates, as reported by The Art Newspaper.

New Perspectives’ operations span the US, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Dolman, who once advised the Qatari royal family, told The Wall Street Journal that the new firm will place a particular focus on the Gulf region, targeting sovereign families, major art trusts and estates, and global collectors.

The younger Dolman, who has been cultivating ties to collectors in the Middle East, observes a new generation of younger collectors who support regional artists while also collecting internationally.

The launch of New Perspectives comes a little over a month after Art Basel announced its newest fair in Doha, Qatar in February 2026. Earlier this year, Sotheby’s held its first live auction in Saudi Arabia, after officially debuting in the country at the end of 2024. Meanwhile, Christie’s, whose Dubai office opened in 2005, announced a second outpost in Riyadh in September 2024.

Sanle Yan is an editorial intern at ArtAsiaPacific.