In 2020, the Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF bought a Damien Hirst print for $30,000 and cut out each of its 88 spots, selling them for $480 apiece. It then auctioned off the leftover paper, retitled “88 Holes,” for more than $260,000. While cutting up and selling pieces of works of art remains the stuff of
Knowing where to start with investing in art is much like staring at a blank canvas. Where to begin? What colours, compositions, subjects? The world of creative investments is, after all, an incredibly subjective one; a market propelled by value judgements. Here, you will be capitalising on matters of the heart as much as of
Whether you like Mark Rothko’s large abstract paintings or not, there’s no doubt that they’re valuable. In 2012, a Rothko canvas fetched a record $87 million at auction. More recently, a collection featuring other American abstract expressionists, including one piece by Willem de Kooning and one by Jackson Pollock, set new records. The collection sold
and putting up a painting on the wall getty As inflation increases, some advisors see a silver lining in art as an alternative investment that is unaffected by the financial markets. As with many alternative investments, there are Private Equity Funds that are developing in the art market, such as Masterworks. Others are picking potential
From major art fund managers to alternative investment platforms, there are more ways to invest in art than ever before. These are some of the best art investment fund, whether or not you’re an accredited investor—there’s a way to invest in art that works for everyone. Artemundi Artmeundi is one of the best-performing international art
To determine whether blue chip art is a good investment we must look at the big picture. This means understanding the downsides of art as an investment before praising its benefits. First, the art market is largely unregulated, and the investment risks are similar to commodities in that they’re purely speculative. Secondly, making quick profits
Courtesy of: Masterworks.io Investing in multimillion-dollar paintings usually requires having a sizable amount of capital. Privately-held startup Masterworks is set out to change that. Masterworks is making the world of art a little less exclusive by offering everyday investors the chance to own a fraction of these high-priced investments with a much smaller amount of
The art press currently seems remarkably focused on the high prices fetched for work by a small set of young artists. Many of these high-priced works were previously purchased for far less. A $10 million Peter Doig painting once sold for $30,000 (or some such figure). And works by other young abstract-process-based painters that sold
Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, have been a hot investment theme the past couple of years. Although various uses for these cryptocurrency-based assets are still being developed, art investing has emerged as an early winner for NFT utility. Traditional art investing is largely the realm of the super wealthy, but NFTs have opened the door for
HONG KONG, CHINA – OCTOBER 04: Visitors experience an immersive art installation titled “Machine … [+] Hallucinations Space: Metaverse” by Refik Anadol at the Digital Art Fair Asia showcasing digital and NFT art on October 4, 2021 in Hong Kong, China. The first edition of Digital Art Fair Asia is taking place in Hong Kong.