Artist IP is the most comprehensive source of information on artist investment potential for fractional ownership and/or collecting based on patented technology.
IS IT YOUR TIME FOR DALI OR SHOULD YOU PICK PICASSO?


IT DEPENDS ON YOUR CHOICE OF PERFORMANCE METRIC WEIGHTS.

Have you considered investing in fractional ownership and/or collecting art, but hesitated because you could not decide which artist would have the best investment potential for you? We can show you how to tailor your art buying decisions to your financial investment goals.

Our proprietary and patented technology uses four performance metrics that allow consistent comparison of artists as diverse as Warhol and Monet, Hirst and Picasso, Kusama and Rembrandt.



Subscribers will be asked to assign a weight to each of the following four performance metrics:




The market adjusted risk per unit of return.




The percentage of works offered that sold.




The ratio of that artist’s sales to the sales of the artist in the database with the largest number of sales.




The percentage of works that sold at a loss.



Each artist has a unique numerical value for each of the four-performance metrics based on historical results in the repeat sale auction market.



We ask you to reveal your relative preference for the four-performance metrics by using the preference slider below. The only constraint on your weight is that their sum be equal to 100%.

Weights: (MARPUR + Salability + RLMS + LL must equal 100%)
Market adjusted risk per unit of return ratio:
Percent sold:
Relative liquid market size:
Loss likelihood:
CROWD SOURCE DATA
Market adjusted risk per unit of return ratio 41.4%
Salability 20.2%
Relative liquid market size 16.5%
Loss likelihood 21.9%
YOUR DATA
Market adjusted risk per unit of return ratio %
Salability %
Relative liquid market size %
Loss likelihood %


Multiplying each of an artist’s four performance metrics by the user chosen weight for each metric and then adding them together in a special way yields the artist investment potential (AIP) for that artist. Artists with small positive AIP values have a stronger investment potential than artists with high AIP values. Artists’ AIP values can be compared by the user as a way of facilitating the selection of an artist for investment. There is no one correct set of weights their values are personalized and therefore not comparable across users.

All the analysis is based on works of art that were sold at three of the world’s leading auction houses since 2000 and had been previously purchased at any auction house since 1970. There are currently over 40,000 of these repeat sale pairs in the database. Our site will be updated with new data after every auction season.



In our System, artists are compared according to their respective Artist Investment Potential (AIP) scores. An artist’s AIP is based on your personal decision about the relative importance of each of the performance metrics to your investment goals and risk tolerances. Its importance is shown by the relative weight you assign to each metric. The sum of the weights must total 100 %.

For example, if your investment priority is avoiding a loss on resale, choose a higher weighting for sales resulting in a loss to the seller, loss likelihood, than for the other metrics. If your priority is buying an artist, such as Picasso, that has had a wide market, making it easier to find a buyer on resale, then give a higher weight to relative liquid market size.



To make your investment selection process easier, we use a database of the repeat sales of the almost 900 most active artists, at least 10 repeat sale pairs, from the master database representing about 8000 artists. These most active artists in the auction market are further grouped into artists with similar frequency of sales and average price level of sales.

The sale frequency ranks are high for artists with more than 50 repeat sale pairs and moderate for artists with from 10 to 50 pairs. We find that using fewer than 10 pairs leads to substantial volatility in the results and therefore do not consider those artists in our analysis.

The sale price ranks are high for artists whose works have an average sale price over $500k, moderate for average sale prices between $100k and $500k and low for artists with an average sale price less than $100k.



PICASSO AIP 1.4138
DALI AIP 1.8161
CROWD PICASSO AIP 4,248
CROWD DALI AIP 2.723

These results clearly show that the crowd prefers Dali, but the user prefers Picasso.



Become a PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER (current introductory half price offer of $125 per calendar year) and find out your AIP results for 900 of the most actively traded artists in the international auction market. As an example, see below the top five artists in the high price high market activity group given current crowd source weights.



CROWD WEIGHTS
LIQUIDITY RANK SALE PRICE RANK AIP ARTIST NAME
HIGH HIGH 1.0005 SOULAGES
HIGH HIGH 1.0313 BASQUIAT
HIGH HIGH 1.0743 KUSAMA
HIGH HIGH 1.0995 MITCHELL,J
HIGH HIGH 1.1207 FRANKENTHALER




SHOULD YOU BET ON BANSKY OR HOLD HIRST?


ONCE AGAIN IT DEPENDS ON THE PERFORMANCE METRIC VALUES FOR EACH ARTIST AND YOUR METRIC WEIGHTS.

BANSKY AIP 1.229
HIRST AIP -1.4373



CROWD SOURCE DATA
Market adjusted risk per unit of return ratio 75%
Salability 5%
Relative liquid market size 10%
Loss likelihood 10%

Clearly Banksy is preferred to Hirst for this set of weights. This is an example where the AIP for Hirst is negative. This is caused when the artist returns underperform the market resulting in a negative MARPUR. Some weighting schemes, however, can turn a negative MARPUR into a positive AIP. We caution investors that the resulting positive AIP result should not lead the investor to think that the artist will yield return results that outperform the market. A positive MARPUR can never produce a negative AIP.

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