About the Agency

Tolna Searle Projects is a boutique fine art agency focusing on visionary artists working outside the mainstream art movements. Prevailing movements of twentieth century art have been nearly exclusively spotlighted by scholars and the art market. Although movements like Abstract Expressionism and Pop are vibrant, essential stories, there is a broader narrative of art history currently emerging.

Whether by choice or by being ahead of the trends of their time, there are significant fine artists who are contributors to a more cohesive and expansive view of the last century of art and the human experience.

About the Founder

Through 15 years as a fine art dealer in established secondary market masterworks, Tolna Searle founder Naomi Baum gained experience in multiple facets of the investment art market, including restoration, authentication, brokering deals between private collectors and institutions and working with artist's estates to place selected artworks. Through inexhaustibly inspired by the everyday encounters with these recognized masterworks, she also saw equivalent, fascinating artists consistently bypassed for name brands.

More recently, as director of the Mark Baum Estate, she understands very personally the rich veins of fine art in the past century that were created outside the central art movements, born from and in direct response to the same fertile and dynamic historical contexts.

A New Perspective

Tolna Searle Projects is launching to be at the forefront of a dawning shift in perspective, as alternate art movements and artists emerge to enrich the narrative of art in the last century. We are recognizing that these pioneering artists with fresh visual languages are now ascending, both critically and through the established channels of the art market.

Collectors now have an opportunity to invest in a new, inclusive vision of art history, and we are uniquely poised to help them in building a diverse portfolio of both established masters and groundbreaking artists as the definition of fine art and investment art expands into new and exciting historical terrain.