“These auctions were about business, pure and simple,” Los Angeles-based advisor Dane Jensen told Observer. “ And while there was clearly an over-exuberance in the past several years, I have to say I did miss a bit of the ‘shock of the new.’”

Norman Zammitt’s retrospective at the Palm Springs Art Museum begins with a version of an establishing shot: Visitors are sandwiched between two golden walls, their vision narrowed toward 1973, a monumental, stuttering painted horizon that effectively introduces the artist’s signature Gradations.

“Norman Zammitt: Gradations". contains 47 works that reveal him to be an artist whose large horizontal-stripe paintings are at least the equal of Kenneth Noland's, and whose sense of color, if not quite the equivalent of Ellsworth Kelly's, is at least a worthy neighbor to it.

JUN 12, 2024
Monumental acquisitions often require expert advice—from analyzing the market to vetting the condition—and this incredible Joan Mitchell “Sunflowers” painting is an example of my services at work, allowing clients to “collect with confidence.”

MAY 15, 2024
A sense of narrowly avoided disaster characterized two sales at Christie’s the following night, held after several days of the auction house’s website being down due to a technology security issue. “Even one less bidder can make a huge impact on the performance of a work (…) It didn’t feel exciting in the room,” art adviser Dane Jensen told ARTnews.

MAR 14, 2024
“The Light and Space artist who flew under the radar has his moment in the sun. [...] The Palm Springs Art Museum is taking visitors on a glorious tour through his chromatic investigations.”

NOV 15, 2023
“Late on Tuesday afternoon, art advisor Dane Jensen sat at the zinc bar of a French bistro in midtown Manhattan. Wearing something of an art auction uniform– green Gucci sneakers, matching green sweater, dark gray pants, navy blazer–he flipped through the catalog for Phillips' two-part sale of 20th century and contemporary art , which was due to start a few blocks away that evening. “

JUN 1, 2023
Jensen talks about the role of an art advisor as well as what makes Los Angeles distinctive in terms of its collectors, their goals and what they value. We also talk about Ernie Barnes, how his market has rapidly globalized and what it was like to bid in that wild auction for The Sugar Shack.

MAY 20,2022
“The room responded, and a bespectacled Los Angeles–based art adviser named Dane Jensen quietly lifted a paddle to signal that he too would be bidding, on behalf of the client whispering at him through his cell phone.”

MAY 16, 2022
“Perkins won the day after a grueling 10 minutes of bidding—“it started and it just went nuts,” he told the New York Times, adding that when a rival bidder, identified by the Value as Dane Jensen of Los Angeles art advisory Gurr Johns, warned that he wouldn’t stop bidding.”

MAY 13, 2022
“Seated in the furthest back row, he shouted his first $500,000 bid like he was never going to get another chance. He could have been more patient. Dane Jensen, an Los Angeles-based art advisor seated three rows in front of Perkins, was almost as equally determined”

MAY 13, 2022
“When the bid reached US$3 million, the only one standing in his way was Dane Jensen, a Senior Director of Art Advisory at Gurr Johns International in Los Angeles, who seemed almost as equally determined—and a bit cooler about his bidding.”

MAY 12, 2022
”In the end, the bidding came down to Perkins vs. someone else in the room - the art advisor [Dane Jensen] from Gurr Johns, according to the art reporter Josh Baer- who was bidding on behalf of an unidentified person on the phone.”

OCT 8, 2015
“There were people at the Ping-Pong event that had never bid with us before who were bidding with us,” said Dane Jensen, a specialist in contemporary art in the Los Angeles office of Bonhams. “Part of that is because of what we’re showing, and part of it is because of that event.”

ISSUE 42. SPRING, 2015
”Will Brown talks to Dane Jensen about a ping pong tournament to be held in Los Angeles in conjunction with Bonhams’ new contemporary sale.”

MAR 2, 2015
”Jensen joined Bonhams Auctioneers in Los Angeles in 2013 and was named Director of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 2015. He is Head of Sale for “Tell Me What You Want (What You Really, Really Want),” a new Los Angeles-based contemporary art auction dedicated to innovative artistic practices from the past several decades.”

MAY 1, 2013
“Curator’s interviews with performers could prove a “goldmine” for scholars, skirting the artist’s ban on documentation of his work”