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Thinking of Investing in Art? This Collector Offers Rules

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Bob Rennie is a buy-and-hold kind of guy.

At 18, he scraped together $375 to buy his first artwork, a print by Norman Rockwell. Now 58, the Vancouver real-estate entrepreneur has a private museum that houses his collection of more than 1,400 works. He still owns the Rockwell and says he’ll never part with it.