Your collection appreciates. Cove never looks away.
What you've collected matters. Cove helps you understand it, protect it, and enjoy it more.
Cove is not a digital file cabinet.
Unlike traditional artwork management systems that can only give you back what you manually type in, Cove gives you an entire world. Financial data. Market activity. Context. History. News.
Without a single keystroke.
Cindy Sherman is a seminal American artist celebrated for her conceptual portraits that have fundamentally challenged the nature of photography and the construction of identity since the late 1970s. Her work is a cornerstone of virtually every major museum collection worldwide, including MoMA, the Tate, the Centre Pompidou, and the Guggenheim.
Read more ›From Untitled Film Stills (1977–1980), a series of 70 black-and-white photographs in which Sherman staged herself as heroines of non-existent 1950s B-movies and film noir. A landmark of postmodern art.
A collection's value can move quickly. Cove won't miss it.
A traditional appraisal tells you what a piece is worth on the day it's delivered. Cove is always watching, and keeps you informed.
Cove's continuous monitor.
Because traditional appraisals happen infrequently, a lot is missed. Most pieces in a collection sit quietly. A small share moves significantly. Without watching them, you only find out at the next appraisal — by which point, the math has already moved.
Cove's intelligence layer watches every piece you own. When something moves, you know. So you stop paying to reappraise what didn't change, and you stop missing what did.
A client barely survived a wildfire. Then learned she'd been $4 million underinsured the entire time.
Her collection had appreciated $4 million since her last appraisal. Her insurer kept renewing the policy on the stale 5-year-old appraisal numbers. She followed the rules. The current system failed.
With Cove watching, it won't happen again.
Cove. The end of not knowing.
Insurance renewal. Estate planning. Lending. Gifting. Every decision about your collection deserves a current answer. Cove makes sure you have one when you need it.
Insurance accuracy
Always know what your collection is worth. Save thousands on appraisal cycles because you update only those that move. USPAP appraisals on demand.
Estate readiness
Your attorney and heirs see the same accurate picture you do — current values, provenance, ready when needed.
Art-secured lending
Every piece becomes loan-ready. Borrow against the collection in days, not months.
Gifting & divestment
Make decisions based on actual values. IRS-qualified appraisals by certified appraisers when needed.
Wealth-strategy fluency
Your advisor can finally talk about your collection in the same conversation as your portfolio.
If you self-insure
Many serious collectors don't carry formal coverage. You still want to know what your collection is worth — and how it's moving. Cove tells you, continuously, without an appraisal cycle.
Until Cove, options weren't great.
Notebooks. File cabinets. Emails.
- Hard to find what you're looking for
- Vulnerable to fire, flood, and time
- Only you know what's there
- Hard to share with advisors, insurers, or heirs
Spreadsheets. Artlogic. Artwork Archive.
- You type everything yourself
- You update everything yourself
- You only get back what you put in
- Not built for collectors
A trusted person, with finite hours.
- Hands-on care, on a schedule
- One person's expertise and bandwidth
- Can't watch markets in real time
- Their knowledge leaves when they do
Cove.
- Effortless onboarding
- Continuously monitoring
- Market intelligence, context, news
- Built specifically for collectors
No more data entry.
Cove was built so you don't have to type in a thing. Drag and drop documents — Cove reads them, securely fills in the data, and sources everything else to keep you informed.
Documentation
Museum-grade cataloguing and professional photography assembled into a single record that travels with the work in perpetuity.
Appraisals & Valuations
USPAP-compliant appraisals by accredited appraisers for insurance, estate planning, and charitable donations.
Market Monitoring
Continuous tracking of comparable sales, market movement, and signals.
Just need an appraisal? We do that too. Every appraisal can stand on its own, and every appraisal lives inside the platform, ready when you need it next.
Just ask.
Cove answers anything you'd ever want to know about your collection — in plain language, by voice or by text. Need a service? Ask for it the same way.
Gelatin silver print, 40 × 30 in. Edition 1 of 3. Acquired at Phillips, New York in December 1999 for $96,000. Currently appraised at $580,000 — a 504% gain. Your appraisal is current as of July 2025.
This is from Sherman's Untitled Film Stills series (1977–80), the body of work that defined her career and the Pictures Generation as a whole.
MoMA purchased the complete Film Stills series in 1995 for $1 million, cementing its canonical status. Your edition 1 of 3 is from a small-edition reprint; the series was originally produced in editions of 10.
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