A Conversation with Kathleen M. Doyle, Chairman/CEO of Doyle Auctions

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2018 Events
3/12/2018   A Conversation with Kathleen M. Doyle, Chairman/CEO of Doyle Auctions
 

Kathleen M. DoyleChairman/CEO
As Chairman/CEO, Kathleen M. Doyle leads the growth strategy for Doyle. Her in-depthknowledge of the art and auction market, combined with her commitment to providingbuyers and consignors with personalized service, has enabled the gallery to significantlyexpand the worldwide client base and has increased the range of offerings at auction.She established the Middle-Atlantic States office in Washington, DC that serves theSouthern Region of the United States.
Recognizing the opportunity in the global art market, Mrs. Doyle negotiated internationalstrategic alliances in London and Paris. To accommodate consignors and collectors outsideof New York City, she established a network of regional representatives throughout theAtlantic seaboard and in key markets in the West. Mrs. Doyle spearheaded the developmentof online client services with a state of the art Internet site, adding Internet bidding capabilitiesfirst with Amazon.com, and eBay, and currently with Artfact and on DoyleNewYork.com.Mrs. Doyle initiated an extensive education program at Doyle for collectors includinglectures and seminars featuring specialists in art, design, fashion, jewelry, etc. Doylewas the first auction gallery to provide appraisers to The Antiques Roadshow and hassupported WGBH as an underwriter of the program since 1996. Mrs. Doyle alsodeveloped programs to provide free appraisal and auction services for museums andnot-for-profit organizations, schools, universities, hospitals and medical schools andcommunity services.
Mrs. Doyle first joined her husband, William J. Doyle, founder of William Doyle Galleries,in 1968, as Director of Jewelry Exhibitions. She later left to pursue graduate studies.Mrs. Doyle served as Parent Education Specialist at the New York Medical College’s EarlyChildhood Development Center, and, following that, she founded the Parent EducationProgram in the Department of Pediatrics at St. Vincent’s Hospital. For eight years shedirected the early intervention program to provide an interdisciplinary team approach topre and post-natal parent education, family support and advocacy. She rejoined DoyleNew York in 1992, and, after her husband’s death in 1993, she assumed responsibilitiesas Chairman/CEO.

 
About Doyle
Founded in 1962, Doyle is one of the world's foremost auctioneers and appraisers of fine art,jewelry, furniture, decorations, coins, Asian works of art and a variety of specialty categories.Located in New York City, the global capital of the auction market, Doyle offers approximatelyfifty sales each year that attract a broad base of buyers and consignors from around the world.Doyle has an established reputation for professionalism, integrity, expertise and service. Withthe goal of achieving the highest possible prices at auction, Doyle’s focus on providing individualattention to each client remains paramount.
Doyle oversees an ever-expanding network of offices and regional representatives throughoutthe United States, including offices in Beverly Hills serving our West Coast clients, and inGeorgetown serving the Washington, DC / Mid-Atlantic area. Our regional representativesare located in Charlotte, North Carolina, Boston/New England, Connecticut, New Jersey, andFlorida. In addition, Doyle’s marketing strategy in Europe and Asia provides maximum exposurefor property to international buyers. Our personalized services, combined with sophisticated,international marketing and promotion, result in world auction records being set regularly forproperty in a variety of collecting categories.
Through the years, Doyle has auctioned the estates of Hollywood legends James Cagney, GloriaSwanson, Bette Davis, Rock Hudson, Rex Harrison, Ruth Gordon, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. andJoan Crawford. From the world of music were the estates of the legendary New York City Operasoprano Beverly Sills and Broadway actress and singer Barbara Cook, as well as musicians LouisArmstrong, Duke Ellington and Count Basie, and actress and chanteuse Lena Horne. Doylealso auctioned the estate of Lady Sarah Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, sister of the Duke ofMarlborough, as well as the collection of Alice Appleton Hay, daughter-in-law to John MiltonHay, President Abraham Lincoln's private secretary. Among Doyle’s recent sales of importantsingle-owner collections are El Morocco: The John Perona Collection, the collection of acclaimedfashion designer Adolfo, rare books and autographs deaccessioned from the New York City BarAssociation, and Ansel Adams Museum Set sold on behalf of The College of New Rochelle.Decorators and designers whose collections were auctioned at Doyle include David Easton,Keith Irvine, Ronald Grimaldi, Robert Denning, Jamie Drake, Jay Spectre and Fabio Silva. Fromthe fashion world were the estates of Bonnie Cashin, Joe Eula, Geraldine Stutz, and fashion editorand Old Navy spokeswoman Carrie Donovan. Other notable couture auctions include the collectionsof actress Marisa Berenson, opera diva Marion Anderson, and fashion retailers Martha Phillips andLynn Manulis, as well as costume jewelry from the collections of Ann Getty and Brigid Berlin.Doyle is well known for its on-site auctions, including the sale of treasures from two legendaryNew York restaurants, Maxwell's Plum and the celebrated Russian Tea Room as well as notableon-site auctions of the estate of Mets owner Joan Whitney Payson and the estate of theacclaimed American painter Ogden Pleissner.
Doyle's prime objective is to achieve maximum prices at auction, while coordinating andsimplifying the process of appraising and liquidating estate property and private collections.We are committed to providing expert evaluations and personalized services designed to meetthe individual needs of our clients.