A Guide to Buying Australian Aboriginal Art Australian Aboriginal art has been thrust into the limelight of the world stage in recent years due to a combination of culture, history, and aesthetic originality that has captured the eye and imagination of collectors and investors world wide. The recent addition of a new Australian Aboriginal art [...]
Valuing Art – How an Art Price Index Could Change Everything !!! One of the reasons that more people don’t invest in art is the lack of a means of measuring the value of their investment on a day to day basis like you can with shares. As the old saying goes, “knowledge is power” [...]
Buying Art at Auction – What Every Buyer Should Know Buying art at auction can be an exciting and rewarding experience but it can also be an overwhelming experience that can lead to expensive mistakes. Because the auction environment is usually very emotional and fast paced it is imperative that you do your homework beforehand [...]
Art Market Investigation – Fakes, Forgeries and Deception The art world has been plagued by fakes and forgeries for over two thousand years which began largely as a result of buyers being more interested in the aesthetics of the work than who painted it. It was during the Renaissance that artworks became a commodity, resulting [...]
Art Market News Flash – Drawing by Artistic Genius to be Sold at Auction The term “artistic genius” is typically reserved for artists such as Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Van Gogh etc. whose supreme technical skills and highly advanced ideas created a demand and desire for their work that resulted in their status as the [...]
Buying and Selling Upmarket Art Online Although online auction sites such as ebay are sufficient for buying and selling lower value artworks online (provided you take the necessary precautions), the standard online auction platform does not provide the security, service, expertise, prestige and reputation that most people look for when purchasing items of a more [...]
Art and Capital – Art Banking, Art Loans and Art Finance During the art market boom of the late 80′s when art became an accepted and viable form of investment, a need was created for people to be able to borrow against the artworks that they were investing in which resulted in a number of [...]
Art Market Blog Book Review – Three Steps to Investment Success Art investment can be a daunting experience for the inexperienced and uninitiated so I was extremely excited when I came across a new book by professional art, antique and collectable appraiser Scott Zema titled ‘Three Steps to Investment Success – Buying the Right Art, [...]
Art Market History – Looking at the Big Picture The art market correction of the early 1990′s that followed the great art market boom of the late 1980′s sparked a fear of art investment that still prevents many people from investing in art to this day. What many people don’t realise is that over the [...]
Art Rental: Generating an Income from Fine Art Did you know that there is a way to get a guaranteed and immediate return from art? As art investment becomes more popular and a more widely accepted form of investment, different ways of generating returns from investing in art are becoming available. A recent addition to [...]
