Tips and advice for starting your own
art collection

What should I look for when collecting art? Is collecting a good investment? How do I start an art collection and what makes a good collector?

It may look overwhelming at the beginning, yet, let me reassure you, asking the right questions already puts you halfway to success. The rest (and definitely not the least) is your passion for art and some knowledge of how the art market works, both online and offline.

This is the list of my articles and tips for emerging art collectors that address the common challenges and pitfalls beginner art collector might face along this captivating and rewarding journey of art discovery.

Please, feel free to reach out to me personally whenever you have any questions and would like me to help you with a second opinion on the piece, research and other advice on the artwork you are interested in.

To begin with.
Essential Guide to Art Collecting

Learn by example.
Sharing my hands-on collecting and provenance research experience

Look around.
Trends and events of the art market

Brute scandal in art brut
Art investigation that turns fortunes into fakes
Transparent painting in the hands of shady justice
Rare picture in dispute between collector and the state
Infinite charm of a non finito
Preparatory studies and unfinished artworks turn into stand-alone pieces of art
Why AI-generated portrait sold for $432,500 is still underestimated
«Edmond Belamy» is destined to go up in price but its followers won’t
Auction sales as new museums?
Forthcoming Old Master sale highlights, Part I
The oldest Old Masters are on the rise
Forthcoming Old Master sale highlights, Part II
Million-dollar no-name?
Christie’s Old Master Evening Sale in London, 4 July 2019

Useful resources

Tips and advice for starting your own art collection

​What should I look for when collecting art? Is collecting a good investment? How do I start an art collection and what makes a good collector?

To begin with. Essential Guide to Art Collecting

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How to build a valuable art collection? Essential guide for beginners

Learn by example. Sharing my hands-on collecting and provenance research experience

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Look around. Trends and events of the art market

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