A man and a young girl holding hands stand in front of a large wall of paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat in the Brant Foundation art gallery. The wall features multiple panels with colorful, chaotic, and expressive designs.

about

Scott Nussbaum

Scott Nussbaum is a private art dealer and advisor specializing in acquisitions, sales, and strategic consulting on high-end Modern, Post-War, and Contemporary works of art, collections, and estates.

With over twenty-five years of international art market experience — including senior expert roles at Sotheby's and Phillips — Scott has built a reputation for diligence, discretion, transparency, and integrity.

Focusing primarily on 20th-century art, Scott is also recognized as an authority on the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, having brokered and advised on numerous sales and acquisitions of the artist's work.

Recent transactions include significant works by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell, David Hockney, Wayne Thiebaud, Keith Haring, Vija Celmins, Brice Marden, Donald Judd, Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollock, Jeff Koons, and Richard Prince, among others.

Diligence, discretion, transparency & integrity.