M. Franklin Boyd, Founder

Franklin Boyd has been engaged with artist resale rights for nearly two decades. She is the co-founder of Boyd Level LLC an advisory firm that first offered NRRs to its clients; Boyd Level was referred to in the US copyright office’s 2013 report to Congress as offering an example of “best practices”; the firm was also cited in the 2008 UK IPO study on resale rights.

Franklin received a degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and her law degree from New York University. She frequently lectures on the intersection of art & finance as well as art law matters and has appeared in Taking Aim!: The Business of Being an Artist Today by Marysol Nieves, written in connection with the Bronx Museum’s “Artist in the Marketplace” program and How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery by Edward Winkleman , among other publications. She serves on the boards of Art in General in New York and Zer01: The Art and Technology Network in California.

André Level, Visionary

Born in 1880, André Level was an avid art critic and gallerist working in Paris alongside Gertrude Stein and other great collectors of the early 20th Century. Best known for having founded the art investment fund known as La Peau de L’Ours, Level collaborated with and collected works by Matisse, Picasso, Derain, Gauguin and van Gogh among countless others. The collection amassed by La Peau de L’Ours was sold in a single owner sale by the Hôtel Drouot in March 1914 on the eve of World War I. Having realized substantial gains on the works, and seeing the devastation of World War I on everyone including the families of the artists, Level and his partners decided to return a portion of the sales proceeds to the artists who had been in the collection. Level Rights, and its affiliate, Boyd Level, were both named in recognition of the André Level’s forward thinking.