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Artwork appraisals in Georgia for donations, estate tax, insurance, and divorce, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises paintings, sculptures, prints, photography, and mixed media across Georgia, including Atlanta, Savannah, and Augusta.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT ARTWORK APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, GEORGIA 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 standardsIn Georgia, AppraiseItNow values oil paintings, bronzes, prints, photography, folk art, and mixed media for charitable contributions, estate settlement and federal estate filings, insurance schedules, and equitable division.
What we value
One painting, a group by a single hand, or an entire wall can be covered. Where a holding runs long, the significant works are priced on their own and the remainder is grouped by category so the cost stays sensible.
Why owners call
Nearly every Georgia assignment traces back to one of those four events. Each one names the standard and the date, and neither of those is ours to choose.
Three markets quote three different numbers for one picture, and a Georgia report that quietly mixes them is not worth filing.
Sale rooms
A published result is what the buyer agreed to in the room. The consignor took home less, and a value conclusion has to be clear about which of those two figures it is reading.
Dealer retail
An asking price includes the dealer selling cost and the months a work sat on the wall. It informs a replacement figure far better than it informs a charitable deduction.
Private sales
Collector to collector sales often go unrecorded, so evidence for a thinly traded artist has to be drawn from a longer run of public results instead of from local talk.
The reason for the report sets the standard, and the physical facts set the range inside it. We put both in writing instead of leaving a reader to work out which standard was applied and which day it was read on.
Condition and provenance
Restoration and holes in an ownership history take real money off a catalog figure. Purchase papers, exhibition records, and old schedules put some of it back, and the report says plainly which way the evidence ran.
The standard
A deduction and an estate filing read fair market value. An insurance schedule reads replacement. That gets settled in the first conversation rather than at the end of the work.
Georgia does not tax art as art, but its sales and use tax rules draw sharp lines between a private sale, a consigned work, and an auction lot, and each line changes the figure a record can support.
Private sales
No tax enforced
on a Georgia casual sale of property the seller never held for business or for resale
Georgia will not enforce sales or use tax liability against either side of a casual sale transaction, which the rule defines to include a sale of property that was not acquired or held by the seller for use in a business or for resale. A collector selling a picture out of a living room sits inside that definition.
The same rule closes the door again. Where a seller sells property for use or consumption through an agent, broker, or other person regularly engaged in making sales of tangible personal property, the sale is not a casual sale transaction. The identical painting, put through a gallery or a sale room, is taxed, so a private price and a dealer price are not evidence of the same thing.
Consigned work
Fair market value
the Georgia measure when consigned art is used instead of held out for sale
Art consigned, delivered, or entrusted to a Georgia dealer for the purpose of sale is taxable at the time of the retail sale, and the retailer collects on the sales price. Nothing is owed while the work is simply waiting for a buyer.
The moment consigned property is used for any purpose other than retaining, demonstrating, or displaying it for sale, the consignee becomes liable for tax on the fair market value of the property at the time of its first use. A dealer who hangs a consigned canvas at home has triggered a valuation question with a date attached to it, and the figure is market value rather than the consignment price in the file.
Auction lots
Gross sales price
the Georgia figure on each single auction sale, before any fee comes out
Auctioneers, agents, and factors selling tangible personal property in Georgia are liable for collecting and paying the sales tax, and the tax applies to the gross sales price of each single sale with no deduction for the auctioneer's fee, service charges, or any other expense.
That is the same distinction an appraisal has to hold. The gross figure is the one Georgia taxes and the one that belongs in a comparable set drawn from auction records. The consignor's net, after the fees that come out of a settlement statement, is a smaller number and it answers a different question.
What clients say we are known for
Across 100+ 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:
Through auction record databases and market analytics services such as Artnet, Artprice, and AskART, plus major auction house archives that aggregate hammer prices across decades. The appraiser assembles recent arm's-length sales of similar works, adjusts for differences, and reconciles them into a single fair market value conclusion, distinguishing outliers from reliable indicators.
Far less than owners assume. Quantitative studies show artist identity accounts for roughly 30 to 40 percent of value variance while size contributes only about 2 to 5 percent per additional 100 square inches. Condition and provenance carry more weight, so a small, well-documented work can outvalue a larger piece with compromised condition.
When artwork forms part of the estate inventory, which Georgia requires within 6 months of letters unless waived, and whenever a federal estate filing is due. Georgia imposes no estate or inheritance tax of its own, but the IRS expects appraisals that state the valuation method and the specific comparable sales relied on for the fair market value conclusion.
It can be. Georgia use tax applies when non-exempt tangible personal property, art included, is first used, consumed, or stored in the state, calculated on either the original purchase price or the current fair market value depending on how long the piece was used outside Georgia. Retail purchases inside the state carry sales tax, including charges like delivery needed to complete the sale.
Since January 1, 2025, Georgia Code section 48-5-42.1 exempts a taxpayer's tangible personal property from ad valorem tax when its total fair market value is $20,000 or less, excluding motor vehicles. Household art was already exempt when used in the home and not held for sale, so the new threshold mainly shelters modest collections held outside that household exemption.
