Ralph E. Lerner, Educator

In addition to overseeing sales, purchases, and other art dealings over the last 40 years, Ralph E. Lerner has been an educator to artists, collectors, students, and anyone interested in the art world. Ralph Lerner has published several books, but also over 30 articles detailing the intricacies of the art world, from specific sales of a piece of art, to tax methods for both buyers and sellers, to the politics of art and the museums that house it.

Ralph E. Lerner has also lectured to students in universities all across the United States, including NYU, Rutgers University, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, and countless others. Ralph Lerner has also travelled abroad to share his insight and expertise in both Geneva and Basel Switzerland. The topics of these lectures ranged from art as a gift, the theft of art by the Nazi regime, tax aspects of art and its sale, estate planning, and dealer-artist interaction.

Ralph E Lerner has advised and negotiated more public auction sales and private transactions of art over the past 40 years than anyone in the United States, including numerous sales and purchases in excess of $100,000,000. – representing collectors, estates, artists, law firms and foundations. Ralph E Lerner has access to a multitude of supporting experts, including attorneys, appraisers, conservators, custom facilitators, dealers, curators, scholars, museum personnel, and shippers.

He has served as Chairman of the Art Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Chairman of the Fine Arts Committee of the New York State Bar Association and Chairman of the Visual Arts Division of the American Bar Association Forum on Entertainment and Sports Law.

Ralph E Lerner has served on the Board of the New York Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and is a nationally-acclaimed writer and speaker on the topic of tax planning for collectors and artists. Ralph has dealt with the Internal Revenue Service in the broadest possible manner and includes among his clients many of the foremost artists, collectors and art dealers in America.