New Services to Collectors: How to Effectively Invest in Art & Passion Assets

"Collecting art as an investment is more rewarding in terms of emotional, aesthetic and ownership feelings and less sensitive to the macroeconomic factors which can negatively influence financial markets. Their low correlation with traditional investment instruments generates portfolio’s diversification benefits, especially during times of economic uncertainty." Francesco Gibbi, Founder & CEO | LOT-ART | The Art Investment Platform

Lot-Art provides art collectors and investors with a comprehensive search platform and analytical insights to enable informed investment decisions in art related assets as a valid strategy of portfolio diversification.

Our catalogue-search functions and big data analytics allow you to identify the best deals in contemporary & modern art, old masters, classic cars, wine & watches both in terms of asset's liquidity and opportunity of return.

Left: Buy Now: Diego Beneitez - La complicidad y a armonía; Right: Buy Now: M.Marchica - Landscape, 2020

Art Investment Advisory & Market Analytics

The Lot-Art platform allows everyone to select and purchase fine art and luxury collectibles as a form of investment, spotting the best prices in the global art market, identifying price trends and the assets’ potential liquidity & profitability before purchase.

Lot-Art offers the largest aggregator of upcoming auction sales, together with advanced price analytical tools and personalized art investment advisory services, which are useful to both private collectors and wealth managers who consider fine art and passion assets an effective opportunity for capital conservation against the risks of inflation, currency volatility and falling interest rates during and after the covid pandemic.

Left: Buy Now: Katerina Belkina - Whisper; Right: Buy Now: Katerina Belkina - Premonition

Purchasing Fine art & passion assets is a way to effectively diversify an investment portfolio, reducing its financial risk as a whole. Download the Art Investment Brochure and learn how Lot-Art can identify for you quality artworks which also stand as sound financial investments.

Left: Buy Now: Alexander Kosolapov - Caviar (Red), 1989; Right: Buy Now: Alexander Kosolapov - Gorby-Mao, 1991

February 2021 will mark the launch, as premium members' features, of analytic market insights enabling informed investment decisions in fine art and passion assets.

LOT-ART members will have access to exclusive geo-price analytics exposing the best investment opportunities in the global art market. This will serve as an essential tool in choosing the best Country & auction house where to buy or sell, exploiting the so-called "geographical arbitrage".

Left: Auction Highlight: Steven Meisel - Untitled XIII (from Four Days in L.A., The Versace Pictures), 2000; Right: Buy Now: Jean G. Domergue - Mademoiselle avec cheveux brune, First half 20th century

This new dedicated service to art collectors will provide analytic market insights to assess the real-time value of an artwork as well as an entire collection for insurance, resale and collateralization purposes.

Comparing upcoming and past auction prices enables Lot-Art to filter out the best deals of the art market when an artwork is estimated lower than its average sale price and will therefore carry a higher potential of liquidity and return on investment.

Left: Auction Highlight: Shirin Neshat - Water over Head from Soliloquy Series, 1999; Right: Buy Now: Tim Walke - Lily and spiral staircase, 2005

Within the art market, some collectors prefer to buy discreetly, avoiding the limelight of the news, as well as auction sales audience curiosity. During the market uncertainty of the current pandemic, top tier auction houses further developed their private sales services as a safer space for sellers to avoid the risk of having a work possibly unsold at auction.

To its members, LOT-ART is offering a service of Private Sales throughout reserved negotiations. With your account, you will be able to request access to the private sales section for both the purchase and resale of artworks priced at or above Euro 50,000 while lower price pieces will be openly presented in the Buy-Now section of the Lot-Art Gallery.

Auction Highlight: Carlo Pellegrini - Milan Cathedral

By registering as a member you can also keep track of the new sales regarding your favourite artists and collectibles through the Saved Searches, as well as saving your preferred lots in your Wish List to access them quickly, before and after the auction. The Wish List is also a perfect tool to catalogue all your purchases: to record the date, location and sale price of the artworks in your collection.

To offer you a peek of the opportunities that Lot-Art offers to its members, find listed below some upcoming best deals at auction.

BEST DEALS

Left: The Connor Brothers - I Drink to Make Other People More Interesting, 2020; Right: Michael Manning - Untitled, 2013

The Connor Brothers - I Drink to Make Other People More Interesting, 2020
Unique giclée print in colours with screenprinted varnish and hand-additions in acrylic and oil, on archival paper, with full margins. I. 116 x 76.5 cm (45 5/8 x 30 1/8 in.) S. 130.2 x 90.4 cm (51 1/4 x 35 5/8 in.) Signed and dated in pencil, published by the artists, framed. See Price Estimate...
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Michael Manning (born 1985) - Untitled, 2013
Fine art giclee print and acrylic on canvas. Signed on the reverse. 183 x 122 cm. See Price Estimate...
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Left: Damien Hirst - For the Love of God; Right: Damien Hirst - Regeneration, 2009

Damien Hirst (B. 1965) - For the Love of God
Screenprint in colours with diamond dust on wove paper, signed and numbered '366/1000',12.5" x 9.25", along with a book, "Damien Hirst - for the Love of God - the Making of the Diamond Skull". See Price Estimate...
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Damien Hirst (B. 1965) - Regeneration, 2009
Etching and aquatint in colours, on wove paper, with full margins. I. 29.8 x 24.9 cm (11 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.). S. 47.5 x 39.3 cm (18 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.). Signed and numbered ‘PP 1/2’ in pencil (a printer’s proof, the edition was 45), published by Other Criteria, London, unframed. See Price Estimate...
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LOT-ART SERVICES IN SUMMARY

Saved-Searches and Personalized Alerts: Save all your keywords to quickly run your favorite searches in a single click. At your discretion, we can then send you email alerts when new lots matching your saved-searches are available, so you will always have the most updated overview of the art market. Be the first to know when your favourite lots are for sale with customized alerts! On the page header click on "My Searches" -> "Create New Search".

Art Investment Advisory: proposing a financial approach to art collecting, Lot-Art offers a synergic cluster of tools for optimal investment decision-making in art-related assets. Lot-Art can help you selecting artworks & luxury collectables with the highest degree of liquidity and opportunity of return. This service will best serve privates and institutions who wish to invest in art as an asset class but don’t have the expertise to unveil and select the best deals in the global art market, Download the Art Investment brochure.

Valuate & Sell: you can appraise the value of your art & collectibles with the purpose of selling at auction. Disclose the monetary value of your assets, request a free valuation »

Buy Now: Lot-Art has added, aside from auction browsing, the opportunity to search artworks and luxury collectibles from trusted private collectors, artists and galleries. If you are not yet acquainted with the thrill of bidding at auction you can just buy selected artworks and luxury assets in perfect relax proposing your offer through the Lot-Art Gallery.

Private Sales: Following approval of your account, you are able to enter the private sales section of the Lot-Art Gallery to see the artworks on offer and propose your own to valuation. Everything is held discreetly. Access Private Sales and reserved negotiations »

Art News: Discover here the latest stories/ best deals/ featured sales/ opportunities in the global art market.

Wish List: Save your preferred lots in your Wish List to access them quickly, before and after the auction. We can also send you a reminder to place your bid before the auction date, so you will never miss a sale! Your Wish List is also a perfect tool to catalogue your purchases: to record the date, location and sale price of the items in your collection.

Sold & Aftersale: LOT – ART offers the opportunity to search through unsold auction lots in the Aftersale section. Use it to directly get in touch with the auction house if you are interested in negotiating a purchase. In our Sold Section, you will find historical price information recorded at auction, useful information before finalizing your bid.

Catalogue Search: Browse catalogues by auction house and Country clicking on "AUCTIONS" in the homepage header.

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