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Current market instability highlights the need to consider investments that have been shown to yield healthy returns and retain their value over the long-term, inspire original thought, increase problem solving, boost self-confidence, encourage social networking and improve worker reliability, thus stimulating productivity and economic confidence.

The art market has become comparatively transparent allowing access to auction prices, construction of indices and more accessible information. Art has arrived as a new asset class. The art market has become international, its benefits to our collective heritage are potentially priceless and permeate the globe.

 

Hirst, Damien (*1965)

Nationality: British YBA

Return: 100 EUR invested in 1997 would have an average value of 658 EUR in June 2007

Ranking Top 500 Artists: 2006 No.57

Gallery Representation:

Corporate Patrons: Deutsche Bank

http://www.deutsche-bank-art.com/

Warhol, Andy (1928 - 1987)

Nationality: American

Return:100 EUR invested in 1997 would have an average value of 534 EUR in June 2007.

Ranking Top 500 artists: 2006 No. 2

Gallery Representation:

    

Corporate collectors can pour considerable investment into research of emerging artists and expert curatorship, thus providing a useful guide to the new discerning investor on possible direction to take. 

Diversification: An investment in art can be an effective tool to reduce the risk exposure of a carefully planned investment portfolio. This would be an ideal measure to employ during a period of market volatility. The prerequisite here, is top-quality art and a long-term view of 10 years or more. Research supports the ability of quality art to survive economic downturn, the value of the holding never going down to zero, compared to many other investments. Art prices have been consistently shown to recover more quickly after crashes than equities.

Portraitfoto TAL R, 2006
Foto ©: Jan Bauer, Courtesy Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

A retrospective exhibition of the contemporary artist Tal R (Tal Rosenzweig), covering work done from 2000, will be taking place at the Essl Museum in Austria. The artist will be available for questions at the opening reception on the 12th June starting at 7.30pm.

 

Louise Bourgeois (b.1911, Paris) is widely recognised as one of the most important artists working today. She has, over her long career, worked through most of the twentieth century's avant-garde artistic movements from abstraction to realism. Yet, Bourgeouis has always remained uniquely individual, powerfully inventive and at the forefront of contemporary art.

 

A domestic art market index is tracking the boom in the Chinese art market. Local auction houses find it a useful tool to see where the market is heading.