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Diversify your portfolio with multimillion-dollar paintings. Citibank recommends allocating between 1.4%-4% of your portfolio to art.
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Masterworks
Masterworks is the first platform making it possible to invest in multimillion-dollar works from artists like Banksy, Kaws, Basquiat, and many more. Investors of all types who seek to improve their portfolio performance use our proprietary data. Contemporary art prices have appreciated by 14.1% annually on average from 1995-2021 1H.
Coinbase
Coinbase is an online platform that allows merchants, consumers, and traders to transact with digital currency. It allows its users to create their own bitcoin wallets and start buying or selling bitcoins by connecting with their bank accounts.
Masterworks vs. Coinbase at a glance
Coinbase | Masterworks | |
|---|---|---|
Buy Blue-chip Art | ✓ | |
Sell Blue-chip Art | ✓ | |
Number of offerings | 96 | 80+ |
Minimum Trade | $2 | $0 |
Trading and transaction fees | ||
Can use your own digital wallet? | Yes | Yes |
Customer Service | Just email support Emergency number for a disabled account | 24/7 dedicated investing advisor team |
Summary | Coinbase is a great place to build your crypto portfolio, but you cannot access art investing. | Masterworks is the only premium platform to invest in art, holdings are vetted by a team of art acquisition |
What makes Masterworks
the best Coinbase alternative?
$400M+
Securitized Paintings
100+
Total Offerings
15.8%
Net Annualized Track Record
Calculation Methodology
Why invest in art?
Price Appreciation
Based on Masterworks research, contemporary art prices have increased 13.6% on an annualized basis from 1995-2021 1H
Potential Inflation Hedge
During periods from 1985-2020 when inflation was equal to or higher than 3.0%, contemporary art prices had an average real price appreciation of 23.2%.
Low Correlation
Citi Private Bank calculated a correlation coefficient of 0.19 between contemporary Art and the S&P 500 from 1985-2020
Expert Data
What people are saying?
“It's a brilliant business model that is tearing down the barriers to entry into the art market.”
"There are more than 9,000 firms that help investors allocate to venture and private equity, but none other than Masterworks that facilitates fractional investment in art."
“Masterworks’ track record has earned it over 350,000 members and over $500 million in assets under management as of March, and it’s just getting started.”
How it works
Our research team
chooses artists
We determine which artist markets have the most momentum
Masterworks purchases the painting
We acquire the best examples available, at attractive prices
The painting
is securitized
We file an offering circular with the SEC allowing anyone to invest
We hold the painting
for 3–7 years
You receive your pro rata proceeds if and when the painting sells
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