Modern collectors of paintings vary in the following categories. Collectors entrepreneurs have different attitudes to art: it can be a real interest and desire to help the artist. Buyers are in a classic case – are engaged in the purchase and sale of works of art. Pictures of them, of course, like them, but they have in the foreground material well-being, and not a desire to study painting.
Snobs collect paintings because of their own position in society, or because it is fashionable. Due to lack of knowledge of such collectors collect paintings do not work, and “names”, although such work does not always act as a guarantor of quality. Collectors – investors are buying art for the purpose of investment funds and hedge against inflation. But for collectors, connoisseurs collection of works by great artists – a real passion. But regardless of the purpose of acquisition of the painting and the budget, on our site you can find works that will be a real highlight of your collection, or the first instance that will make it possible to feel an avid collector.
Novice collectors often reside in the power of delusion that great art is sold only for big money. This is so, not quite.
The situation in the market of contemporary art scares many of its variability. Despite some shakiness in prices, by artists such as Mark Rothko, can be easily enroll in the category of “the dream of the investor.”
For example, the work of “Number 7”, bought by some lucky in 1998 for $ 1.6 million, was sold in 2007 at Christie’s for 18.75 million dollars. For some nine years, the price jumped more than tenfold.