Mr. Tobias Czudej, AAA Certified

USPAP compliant through:

03/22/2026

Specialization(s)

Postwar, Contemporary, and Emerging Art

Member Type

Certified Member

Service(s)

Charitable Donation; Estate Tax Liability; Equitable Distribution; Insurance

Appraiser's Statement

Tobias Czudej combines top-level experience in the blue-chip art market with an internationally-recognized practice as a cutting-edge curator of contemporary work. He’s uniquely positioned to appraise all levels of Post-War and Contemporary art.

He began his career at Gagosian Gallery, moving on to run the London Soho location for Pace. During this time, he worked with artists and estates including Cy Twombly, Mike Kelley, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko and Claes Oldenburg. As a curator, his exhibitions at institutions and commercial galleries worldwide have featured in Art Forum, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and The Sunday Times, among others. 

Czudej holds a BA in Fine Art from Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. He regularly speaks on art and the art market, most recently at Yale University, New Haven, USA; Deloitte , Switzerland and Oxford Brookes University, UK. He sits on the membership committee of the Appraisers Association of America and is a mentor to graduates of the Comprehensive Appraisal Studies Programme (CASP).

Offices:

Czudej McDonough
One World Trade Centre, Suite 8500
New York, NY, 10007

Appraisal Services:

Museum Donation (IRS, CRA, CCPERB)
Insurance
Equitable distribution 
Estate tax and planning
Art Financing (Collateral lending)
Appraisal Review
Litigation Support
Dispute Resolution & Mediation
Second Opinion & Reappraisal
Gift tax
Loss and damage
Sales advisory
Acquisition advisory
Damage & Loss

Categories

Contemporary
Emerging
Minimalism
Conceptual 
Blue-Chip 
Ultra-contemporary
Post-Internet
American
European
Asian
Abstract
Figurative
Photo-Realism
Monochrome
Light and Space
Neo-Geo
Pictures Generation
DADA
Color-Field
Chicago Imagists
Surrealism
Outsider
Op-Art
Arte Povera
Pop
YBAs

Mediums

Painting 
Sculpture
Photography 
Drawing
Prints
New Media
Video
NFTs
Multi-Media
Performance
Installation

Artists

Josef Albers
Kai Althoff
Richard Artschwager
Ruth Asawa
Michael Asher
Frank Auerbach
Lutz Bacher
Francis Bacon
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Lynda Benglis
Joseph Beuys
Alighiero Boetti
Lee Bontecou
Cecily Brown
Daniel Buren
Alexander Calder
Vija Celmins
John Chamberlain
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Willem de Kooning
Lois Dodd
Trisha Donnelly
Lynne Drexler
Jean Dubuffet
Marcel Duchamp
Marlene Dumas
Jana Euler
Dan Flavin
Lucio Fontana
Robert Frank
Helen Frankenthaler
Lucian Freud
Lee Friedlander
Isa Genzken
Adrian Ghenie
Luigi Ghirri
Alberto Giacometti
Sam Gilliam
Robert Gober
Arshile Gorky
Adolph Gottlieb
Dan Graham
Wade Guyton
R.H. Quaytman
Hans Haacke
Peter Halley
Richard Hamilton
David Hammons
Marsden Hartley
Robert Heinecken
David Hockney
Shara Hughes
Robert Irwin
Kerry James Marshall
Jasper Johns
Rashid Johnson
Donald Judd
Alex Katz
Mike Kelley
Ellsworth Kelly
Edward Kienholz
Martin Kippenberger
Yves Klein
Franz Kline
Imi Knoebel
Jeff Koons
Jannis Kounellis
Lee Krasner
Michael Krebber
Yayoi Kusama
Michaël Borremans
Louise Lawler
Sherrie Levine
Sol LeWitt
Roy Lichtenstein
El Lissitzky
Morris Louis
Lee Lozano
Tala Madani
Kazimir Malevich
Agnes Martin
John McCracken
Julie Mehretu
Mario Merz
Joan Mitchell
Henry Moore
Giorgio Morandi
Robert Morris
Robert Motherwell
Bruce Nauman
Louise Nevelson
Barnett Newman
Julien Nguyen
Isamu Noguchi
Cady Noland
Kenneth Noland
Jim Nutt
Georgia O’Keefe
Albert Oehlen
Chris Ofili
Claes Oldenburg
Laura Owens
Elizabeth Peyton
Blinky Palermo
Nicolas Party
Agnes Pelton
Adam Pendleton
Francis Picabia
Sigmar Polke
Jackson Pollock
Seth Price
Robert Rauschenberg
Ad Reinhardt
Gerhard Richter
Bridget Riley
Mark Rothko
Ed Ruscha
Lucas Samaras
Jenny Saville
Thomas Schütte
Kurt Schwitters
Park Seo Bo
Richard Serra
Cindy Sherman
Avery Singer
David Smith
Pierre Soulages
Frank Stella
Clyfford Still
Rudolf Stingel
Thomas Ruff
Sturtevant
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Alina Szapocznikow
László Moholy-Nagy
Paul Thek
Bob Thompson
Wolfgang Tillmans
Rosemarie Trockel
James Turrell
Luc Tuyman
Cy Twombly
Lee Ufan
Andra Ursuta
Dahn Vo
Andy Warhol
Lawrence Weiner
Fischli & Weiss
Franz West
Jack Whitten
Jordan Wolfson
Matthew Wong
Jonas Wood
Christopher Wool
Zao Wou-Ki
Zhang Xiaogang
Liang Yuanwei

and more.

We serve:

Private Collectors
Estates
Artists
Law firms
Museums
Private Wealth Management
Family Offices