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Antique artwork appraisals in Louisiana for donations, estate tax, insurance, and divorce, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises oil paintings, sculptures, prints, folk art, and decorative antiques across Louisiana, including New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT ANTIQUE ARTWORK APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, LOUISIANA 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 standardsAppraiseItNow provides professional antique artwork appraisal services throughout Louisiana, delivering USPAP-compliant valuations for donations, estate tax filings, insurance coverage, and divorce proceedings. Louisiana's rich cultural heritage, from the French Creole traditions of New Orleans to the folk art legacy of artists like Clementine Hunter, means that antique artwork in the state often carries both significant monetary value and deep regional historical importance. Whether you are an heir navigating a complex estate, a collector seeking insurance documentation, or an attorney requiring a qualified appraisal for litigation, our credentialed appraisers provide reports that meet IRS standards and hold up to legal scrutiny.
Many antique artwork appraisals in Louisiana can be completed remotely using high-resolution photographs and supporting documentation, making the process accessible to clients across the state's diverse parishes and communities. For pieces where condition, scale, or attribution complexity requires direct examination, our appraisers coordinate onsite inspections throughout the state, including New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Lafayette, and Lake Charles. As a specialized component of fine art appraisal, antique artwork valuation demands expertise in provenance research, period attribution, and shifting collector markets, all areas our appraisers are specifically trained to address. We offer Fair Market Value (FMV) and Replacement Value appraisals for various intended uses.
Louisiana collectors, estates, and institutions hold antique artwork spanning a wide range of media, periods, and regional traditions. Our appraisers evaluate pieces across the following categories:
Louisiana's position as a center of French and Spanish colonial culture means that many estates and private collections contain antique artwork with distinct Creole, Acadian, or Gulf Coast provenance. Our appraisers are experienced in evaluating these regionally significant pieces alongside nationally and internationally recognized antique works, ensuring accurate and defensible valuations regardless of origin or style.
AppraiseItNow serves individual collectors, heirs, and donors throughout Louisiana who need credible valuations for antique artwork, as well as estate attorneys, CPAs, trust officers, auction specialists, and charitable organizations that require IRS-qualified appraisal reports for their clients and constituents.
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:
Auction records and documented dealer sales, not consumer price books. Our appraisers pull comparables from sources such as Sotheby's and Christie's sale archives, Invaluable, and MutualArt, then adjust for condition, restoration, size, and subject desirability, documenting the rationale for each adjustment in the report.
Louisiana is a community property state, so artwork acquired during the marriage is generally community property that must be partitioned equally under Civil Code articles 2336 through 2369. The community's assets are valued as of the termination of the community regime rather than the trial date, which makes the effective date of the appraisal a critical detail.
Frequently, yes. Louisiana successions require an inventory or descriptive list of the estate's property, and supporting appraisals give the succession representative defensible values to stand behind. Louisiana relies on these signed descriptive lists rather than court-appointed probate referees, so the quality of the underlying valuation matters.
Because credible appraisals rest on realized sales, not asking prices. Advertised gallery prices can differ materially from what buyers actually pay once negotiation, discounts, and buyer's premium are accounted for, so we anchor antique artwork values to recorded transactions in the relevant market.
