


Unlike traditional art investing - which requires you to travel to auction houses to find and buy famous paintings - Masterworks lets eligible investors purchase shares of blue chip art (defined as art that costs $500,000 or more) online. Masterworks uses contemporary art prices from 1995 to 2021 to illustrate the overall potential of art as an investment. The chart below is the one Masterworks highlights to demonstrate potential returns: However, it’s important to note from the outset that art indices tracking returns prior to 1995 do not show such strong performance. We’ll touch on that in greater detail later in the article. If you learned about Masterworks through an advertisement, there’s a good chance you’ve seen or heard the company compare contemporary art returns to the S&P 500. Masterworks is an online art investing platform founded in 2017 by Scott Lynn, who created the company after realizing that the long-term growth opportunities offered by fine art were inaccessible to most investors. Option 2: Sell Your Shares on the Secondary Market.Option 1: Wait for Masterworks to Sell the Art.

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