Art
It’s Not Trendy, But This Is the Best Deal in Art Right Now
Victorian art might lack sex appeal, but the value is hard to ignore.
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The first rule of collecting is that you should like what you get. You’ll be living with it, after all.
But people don’t buy art just because they think it’s pretty, they also buy it based on the premise that it will hold or increase its value. And because of the sometimes nine-figure prices paid for 20th-century art, many aspiring buyers assume the best investment opportunities are in that sector: Where else can you make 350,000 percent profit in 25 years?