MotorYacht & Canvas
€198M
Meridian Black
2022Lürssen
106 m 18 guests 15 kn
MonacoRequest details
Flagship programmeYacht & Canvas —
Yacht & Canvas —
one contract for both.
Our founding programme. We specify the vessel and the collection together, from the same brief, with the conservation engineering written into the refit drawings rather than argued about afterwards.
42Programmes delivered
9–14Months typical
1Contract, one director
LifeOf ownership custody
The premise
The wall has to exist before the painting does.
Most owners buy the boat, finish the interior, and then go shopping for art. By then the lighting track is installed in the wrong place, the bulkhead has no backing structure, and the only wall of any size faces west.
Available on any vessel — ours or yours
What the programme covers
VesselSourcing or your existing hull
CurationShortlist of 8–12 works
EngineeringLight, humidity, vibration
InstallationOn board, wherever she lies
InsurancePlaced as a single schedule
AftercareAnnual inspection, at our cost
How it runs
Four stages over nine to fourteen months
Each stage ends in a written deliverable you sign off before the next one starts. Nothing is ordered on a verbal.
Conservation standard
The four variables that actually destroy art at sea
Published in full because we would rather clients hold us to it. This specification has been in force since 2014.
Humidity envelope
Cabin relative humidity held between 45 and 55 per cent, logged continuously and reported to you quarterly.
Light budget
Maximum 150 lux on paint surfaces, UV-filtered glazing and blackout on any wall receiving direct sun.
Vibration isolation
Anti-vibration cleats rated for the vessel's own hull frequency, measured at cruising revs — not a generic mount.
Sealed reverse
Backing boards, edge tape and inert barrier layers so salt aerosol never reaches the canvas from behind.
Delivered pairings
Three vessels and the work that went aboard
Published with the owners' permission. The reasoning matters more than the result — each choice was driven by the survey.
Vessel
Work
Meridian Black
Lürssen, 106 m
Crashing Waves
Ines Duarte, textured relief, 220 × 110 cm
A 220-centimetre relief hung on the main-deck bulkhead, lit from a recessed track at 140 lux. The relief's depth reads differently at anchor and under way — the reason we chose it over a flat canvas.
Vessel
Work
Azure Sonnet
Monte Carlo Yachts, 43 m
White Relief
Elise Nordahl, textured relief, 140 × 140 cm
A smaller vessel with a bright interior needed a work that would not compete with the sea. Unpigmented plaster relief, no glazing, and nothing to fade.
Vessel
Work
Corallium
Damen Yachting, 77 m explorer
Breaker Light
Thomas Aird, oil on canvas, 130 × 90 cm
An expedition hull crossing high latitudes: the collection travels in a climate-controlled locker and is hung only when the vessel is stationary for more than a week.
In the programme now
Vessels currently paired
All vesselsMotorYacht & Canvas
€18.9M
Azure Sonnet
2024Monte Carlo Yachts
43 m 10 guests 22 kn
Porto Cervo, ItalyRequest details
ExplorerYacht & Canvas
€88M
Corallium
2023Damen Yachting
77 m 14 guests 13 kn
Reykjavík, IcelandRequest details
Works held for pairing
Prepared and ready to hang
All worksCrashing Waves
€76KInes Duarte · 2023 · 220 × 110 cm
Textured relief
Dances with Waves
€58KSofia Marchetti · 2021 · 92 × 92 cm
Oil on canvas
Breaker Light
€44KThomas Aird · 2024 · 130 × 90 cm
Oil on canvas
White Relief
€34KElise Nordahl · 2024 · 140 × 140 cm
Textured relief
“They told me the wall I wanted to use was the worst wall on the boat, and then spent two months making it the best one. That is not what an art dealer normally does.”
Claudia ReinhardtOwner, S/Y Vela Bianca
Programme questions
Yacht & Canvas in practice
Still unresolved? Our specialists answer directly — usually within a working day.
No. Around half of Yacht & Canvas programmes run on vessels the owner already has, or bought elsewhere. The survey and engineering work is identical; only the brokerage element drops out.
The engineering and curation fee is 2.5 per cent of the collection value, minimum €45,000, and it covers the survey, drawings, installation and the first ten years of annual inspection. Artwork and yacht are invoiced separately at their own prices.
We prefer to. Our hanging survey is issued as a drawing set your designer and yard can build to, and we sit in the fit-out meetings so the lighting and the joinery agree with each other.
Call the number in the dossier. Insurance is placed on a single schedule covering hull-located works, and our conservator will attend the vessel — anywhere — to assess before anything is moved.
Begin
Bring us the hull, or the idea of one.
The first conversation costs nothing and usually takes an hour. If the programme is wrong for you, we will say so and point you at what is right.
The Voyage Letter
New vessels and new works, before they reach the market.
One letter a month: fresh central listings, artist releases, and the private viewings we do not advertise. No forwarding, no third parties.