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Rappaport Partners provides art advisory, collection management, logistics, and creative projects for private collectors, museums, and partners worldwide. Bespoke plans tailored to the client, the collection, and the goal.

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100+institutional partners
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Museum infrastructure

Family trusts and offices

Collections infrastructure spanning tens of thousands of objects.

Loans & exhibitions

From lender to gallery

Loans, insurance, shipping, couriers, and installation.

Public realm

Art beyond the museum

Public art, curatorial initiatives, commissions, and cultural partnerships.

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Artwork in Focus

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Eliora Vell (b. 1982) is an American artist whose layered works move between landscape and abstraction. Beginning with observational drawings made in gardens and public spaces, Vell repeatedly enlarges, fragments and reworks natural forms before returning them to the hand.

Her practice explores how a single image can hold endless possibilities and how one subject can be observed, dismantled and understood in many different ways. Flowers, branches and foliage accumulate into dense systems of marks: part garden, part memory and part imagined environment.

Through a process she calls the Regressive Scribble Technique, Vell brings careful study into conversation with intuitive gesture. Each transformation becomes the foundation for the next, culminating in a handmade work that preserves the evidence, energy and imperfection of its making.

Scribble in the Park 1, 2023

Archival giclée digital print and enamel paint on arches

122.9 × 92.6 × 3.8 cm / 48 3/8 × 36 7/16 × 1 1/2 in (framed)

USD 10,000.00

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Jennifer Rappaport,
Founder

In 2026, Jennifer Rappaport founded Rappaport Partners as an art advisory and collection management practice. It brings a decade of museum operations to private collections — collection care, art logistics, and curatorial projects at every scale.

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Installation view of Eleven-Day Paintings by Ryan and Trevor Oakes at Pietro Alexander Gallery

Exhibition review · October 2026

Eleven days, eleven sections: a Hudson River landscape that holds changing light and weather in a single view.

Panel discussion at the Art Business Conference in London

Field report · September 2026

Notes on private banking, AI-powered art logistics, Old Masters and the changing expectations of collectors.

Maggie Thompson’s I Can’t Breathe Shawl in motion

Feature · Surface Design Journal · Summer 2026

By Topher Gent. On collective making as an expression of care, protection, resistance, and shared knowledge.

Two colorful botanical paintings in progress inside Rob Mellor’s Utah studio

Studio visit · August 2026

The teacher, the studio, and the light I carried with me.

Colorful blown-glass vessels viewed from below

Collection stewardship

Building an institution around the vision of Gerard L. Cafesjian.

Installation view of the Roy Lichtenstein exhibition at the Whitney Museum, with the monumental Brushstroke painting across the back wall

ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Whitney Museum, New York

Exhibition

Installation view of the Calder and O'Keeffe inaugural exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Palo Alto, with a black Calder stabile in the foreground

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE & ALEXANDER CALDER

Hauser & Wirth, Palo Alto

Exhibition

A docent demonstrating IBM tape drives at the Computer History Museum

COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM

Mountain View

Museum

Mirage, the glass sculpture by Katie Paterson and Zeller & Moye among the olive trees at Apple Park

MIRAGE

Apple Park, Cupertino

Sculpture

R2-D2 and C-3PO on display at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

LUCAS MUSEUM OF NARRATIVE ART

Los Angeles

Museum

Mirrored Anish Kapoor disc reflecting the gallery interior at Hayward Gallery

ANISH KAPOOR

Hayward Gallery, London

Exhibition

Detail of the Bayeux Tapestry showing the Battle of Hastings

THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY

British Museum, London

Exhibition

Henry Moore’s studio interior with plaster models and reclining figures

HENRY MOORE STUDIOS & GARDENS

Perry Green, Hertfordshire

Artist Foundation

Gallery interior at the Wallace Collection in Hertford House

THE WALLACE COLLECTION

Hertford House, London

Museum

Installation view of Hold to This Earth from the Tia Collection at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

HOLD TO THIS EARTH — TIA COLLECTION

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield

Exhibition