AVAA is an art advisory firm specialized in contemporary art for private individuals, companies and foundations.

Art advisory

AVAA offers a global service guiding you in all the steps of your contemporary artwork acquisition :

The analysis of a questionnaire which defines your budget, your project and your artistic tastes.

The conception of your tax avoidance strategy for your acquisition.

The presentation of artists with an analysis of the artistic series produced, of the economic data with the first and secondary market prices, of the key player support (galleries, foundations, museums).

The artwork research on the art market (first and secondary market galleries, auction houses, artists, private collectors).

The negotiation of the artwork price.

The supervision of all legalities concerning the artwork acquisition, the shipping and the insurance.

The artwork installation, offering you solutions as the creation of transparent plexiglas boxes if the artwork needs to be protected from the public.

About AVAA commission :

In case of a successful sale, the buyer of the artwork gives to AVAA a 10% commission of the artwork purchase price. AVAA doesn’t get any commission from the artwork seller, that guarantees its impartiality on its artwork selection and its freedom on the artwork price negotiation.

Art Paris 2025

About

Alexandre Vieira has started his art career in 2010 with the creation of Wide Painting, a contemporary art gallery located in Paris in the famous St Germain area.

Elected the youngest gallerist in France in Edgar Magazine in 2012, Alexandre Vieira has had the will to help and promote several of his contemporaries, launching 6 emerging artists on the art market : Marion Colomer and Timothée Talard from Beaux-Arts de Paris, Julien Grudzinski from Beaux-Arts d’Aix-en-Provence, Catherine Javel from Beaux-Arts de Versailles, the fashion photographer Susanne Stemmer and the street artist Le Diamantaire.

With Wide Painting, Alexandre Vieira has supported these artists, in a continual artistic dialogue on their works, creating 13 exhibitions in his gallery in Paris and 4 "off the wall" exhibitions : in Paris at the Parc de Bagatelle and at the restaurants Miss Ko and Jacopo on Champs-Élysées, in New York at the restaurant Cipriani.

By the quality of Alexandre Vieira’s artistic choices, Wide Painting has been selected to be represented on Artsy, the art world leader web platform, from 2016 to 2022. Wide Painting has made exhibited its artists in museums, in Paris at the Palais de Tokyo and at Art 42; in international art fairs, in Paris at the Show Off art fair and at the Nuit Blanche event selected by the Paris City Hall, in Italy at the Venice Art Biennale at the Palazzo Mora selected by the European Cultural Centre. About the media coverage of artists and exhibitions, Wide Painting has been featured in more than 70 international media as France 2 TV, M6 TV, Paris Première TV, ORF TV, Madame Figaro, GQ, Paris Capitale, Arts Magazine, art press, Lifestyle Mag.

Since 2010, Alexandre Vieira has visited major international art fairs as Art Basel in Basel and Miami to meet his collectors and to follow and analyze the art market. This way, Alexandre Vieira was able to create a large artist database seeing a lot of artist works and spotting the most talented artists.

In 2024, Alexandre Vieira has opened a new chapter with AVAA, a company dedicated to art advisory on contemporary art. AVAA is born from the desire of Alexandre Vieira to mix his gallerist eye to his art market knowledge to advise collectors on their acquisitions.