Art Collecting

Are Warhols Bad Investments?

May 12, 2011

Some art experts are recommending that investors stay away from pricey Warhol paintings and look at more mid-level priced pieces. They feel that these mid-level pieces may have greater upside and can bring better returns to the investors. Pricey Warhols Make Lousy Investment: Mao Beats $30 Million Liz By Katya Kazakina As postwar and contemporary [...]

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Wine Collections Get Over US$17 Million

April 26, 2011

The 2011 Sotheby’s auction has received over US$17 Million for wine collections so far. Many investors are buying up alternative assets like wine and spirits because they have done very well over the past couple of years. Sotheby’s Spring 2011 Sales of Two Private Wine Collections Achieve a Combined Total ofUS$17.5Million HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong [...]

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Why Is The Art Market So Big In Dubai?

April 24, 2011

The Dubai art market has been the fastest growing market for Christie’s auction house. Many of the buyers are buying this art as an investment to protect themselves from the volatility of the traditional markets. Christie’s paints rosy picture for art in Dubai By: Rory Jones Michael Jeha is the managing director for Christie’s in [...]

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Will Russian The Art Fund Produce Returns?

April 19, 2011

With art funds popping up all over the globe the first major Russian art fund has been put together. Russia Launches One of the World’s Biggest Art Investment Funds Following France and China, Russia embraced its first big art fund last week when the Moscow stock exchange listed Sobranie.Photoeffect, established by the Russian asset management [...]

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Chinese Art Sells For Over $400Million

April 8, 2011

The world art market has proven to be very bullish. Sotheby’s recently sold $447 million worth of art at their most recent Chinese auction. Sotheby’s sells record $447 million of Asian art (Reuters) – Auction giant Sotheby’s sold $447 million worth of Asian art, wine, watches and jewelry in its Asian spring sales, in another [...]

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The Art Fund Saves Historic Coins

March 26, 2011

Fundraising efforts pay off to save world renowned coin collection. LONDON.- The Art Fund announced that both the Frome Hoard of Roman coins and the Iron Age Hoard of Gold Torcs, or neck ornaments, uncovered near Stirling in Scotland have been secured for the UK public with significant assistance from the Art Fund and the [...]

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Private Investments: Art

February 22, 2011

LONDON—Boutique auction house Phillips de Pury closed out the week of contemporary evening sales in London at its loft-like Howick Place salesroom in Victoria with a peppy mini-auction of 29 lots that made £5,409,200 ($8,720,870). Though dwarfed by the results from titans Christie’s and Sotheby’s and shy of its £5.72-8.4 million presale estimate, Phillips injected [...]

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Lorem Ipsum PageMaker

February 10, 2011

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not …

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