03 December 2023  For this year-end post, I would like to recap a very exciting 2023 with unbelievable beta for EKCART Asia across all collections. Our flagship JUANITA’S acquisition closed in May with final purchases at Bonham’s bringing the total works to 38. The...

 Since 1950, on average, art has outperformed other asset classes at 8.4 pc per annum compounded.  Damien Leslie, senior lending portfolio manager, Sotheby’s London I came away from March’s stellar (as always) TEFAF Maastricht not just with three new works for the...

In the previous post I discussed the British Rail Pension Fund (BRPF) which began in 1974 when the inflationary world economic situation was so similar to what we are experiencing now. Its period of unwinding was from 1987 to 1999. Today I would like to discuss La...

This entry is to bring some encouraging news about buying art to those who have taken a beating in equities. Or anything. Or you may just be having a bad day. Our example is the best known successful institutional art fund which began in 1974 and was part of the...

EKCART Asia bought Yao’s “Good Times: Fishing on the Wild River, 2017 in 2020. This imposing work is made of four panels totalling 130 x 305 cm (each panel is 130 x 76.25 cm) Yao created Taiwan’s entry when it joined the Venice Biennale in 1997. He is a pro flic...

This title epitomises EKCART ASIA and its collections. It is a play on the title of the famous German art dealer Rudolf Zwirner’s memoir “Give Me the Now”. He is the father of an even more famous global art dealer David Zwirner who has a chain of eponymous galleries....