Corporate Art Collections: A Handbook to Corporate Buying

by Mr James Salzmann, James Salzmann

This new volume in the series of Handbooks in International Art Business published in association with Sotheby's Institute of Art offers a timely guide to corporate collecting, examining the history, nature and importance of corporate collecting and the different reasons for starting and maintaining corporate collections, including investment, cultural cach(r), and asset diversification. Based on interviews with the curators, consultants and investors who run such collections, and more extended case studies of important collections, the book concludes with an examination of when corporate collecting becomes a liability and the market-impact of deaccessioning, looking ahead to the future of corporate collecting.

160 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 15, 2012

Reviews

[Samriddha Bhattacharya · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found it to be a wonderfully insightful read. Also it was very well organized and took us through the hows and whys of corporate art collections very seamlessly. It even has interviews and talks about the birth and maintenance of certain major collections.

Would recommend it to anyone who is beginning off with this genre.