Unlike any other investment, when you invest in art you get the benefits of a beautiful piece to hang on your wall as well as the promise of plentiful profits when you do finally sell. We spoke to Julian Usher, Head of Sales of London’s Red Eight Gallery, to discover how he fell in love
After building up his collection over the years, the Saudi Arabia-based, Swiss-born art collector Pierre Sigg decided to embark on something more similar, but not quite the same. The investor and consultant, who focuses on real estate, hospitality, and tech, will soon open a foundation in the form of a prestigious artist residency between the Middle
Expectation of stable financial returns, new trading platforms and high liquidity drive interests in art as investment Appreciating artworks at galleries or exhibitions has been a pure joy for Jeong Hye-young, a 35-year-old office worker in Seoul, not just for finding peace of mind from stress-filled work but also because she sees their rising price
Investing in financial markets has never been easier than it is today, and in the last ten years, a number of new companies have emerged that enable access to alternative asset classes by eliminating the two most challenging barriers to entry for the general population: high capital requirements and the requisite domain expertise. Asset classes,
In 1995, Les Distractions de Dagobert, a painting by British artist Leonora Carrington, sold for $475,000. In 2024, Sotheby’s sold the painting for $28.5 million to an Argentinian billionaire who founded the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires, according to The Wealth Report 2025 by Knight Frank. Such multimillion-dollar price tags are likely to
Shortly after the Chinese crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun bought Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian (2019) for an astonishing $6.2m last week at Sotheby’s New York, he wrote on X of his intention to eat the banana component of the conceptual work. Sun fulfilled his promise today at a press conference held at the Peninsula Hotel in Hong
You’ve probably heard of blue chip stocks, but what exactly is blue chip art? Oliver Gingold, a Dow Jones employee, coined the term “blue chip” in 1923 to define a highly valued stock. This “blue chip” referred to casino chips, the blue ones being the most valuable. Similarly, blue chip art is created by the
Back in April this year, the Australian Retirement Trust (ART) announced it had opened its first overseas office in London in a bid to further capitalise on international investment opportunities. “The plan is to grow our presence in the UK incrementally; we’re not expecting to be a big operation,” a spokesperson told InvestorDaily at the
Image: All About Art Set up during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, All About Art is a Singapore-based art gallery co-founded by Jonathan Toh. Initially, this venture started off as a weekend side hustle where Jon resold art pieces he collected from his previous stints abroad. Jon shared that the deals were
The importance of balancing competing investor protections with the freedoms needed for a future foods company to thrive is challenging but vital to the company’s success. Venture capital investors invariably require contractual protections to safeguard their investment. Generally, it follows that a greater level of investment (whether by amount or proportion of a round) necessitates