Sophisticated in the arts of negotiating and acquisition, Pauline Johnson-Brown has enjoyed an extensive career in Real Estate and in Fine Art.
Over the course of her longstanding career Pauline has been involved in everything from purchasing and renovating historic properties, negotating complex international transactions, to unearthing hidden art provenances, as well as achieving record auction results.
An avid art collector and connisseur of art galleries, and museums she offers to those to whom she consults a deeply knowledgable perspective having worked as a real estate principal, developer and broker with a long history of workng as an Art and Auction Advisor.
Pauline believes that art and real estate are meaningfully interwined. She understands that ones home and art reflect not only monetary worth but what one values and treasures.
Born and raised in Northern California Pauline had her office in San Francisco for more than 25 years before moving to New York in 2009.
Pauline completed transactions for her own account in Manhattan, Washington D.C., Sag Harbor, San Francisco, Carmel, Pebble Beach, Los Angeles, Austin, Texas, Santa Fe, and in Paris where she owned and renovated apartments for herself and for her clients,
Pauline credits her passion for auctions to her Mother and her Aunt who took her as a young girl to Butterfield's in San Francisco. It is worth noting when Pauline is in Paris she can often be spotted waiting in front of the Hotel Drouot Auction house for the doors to open!
Pauline believes there is no better determination of the worth of a painting than the sale of art at auction in "real time."
She advises to various foundations also to artist estates and she works with collectors as a liason to the leading auction houses.
Pauline works with dedication. discretion and commitment to facilitate gifts on behalf of her clients to major museums. She is an avid researcher determined to uncovering a paintings long lost provenance.
Pauline has an extensive referral network across the United States, as well as, in Paris and London.
She currently spends her time in Paris and New York, she lives in Washington D.C. close to her daughter and her son in law.
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