Five Theories to Avoid the Risk of Oil Painting Collection

Since the reform and opening up, China's oil painting art has developed rapidly. The price of oil painting has soared, especially in the Chinese market, and the market price is now soaring. The oil painting, an exotic painting species, has been circulating in China for less than a hundred years, and it has not yet formed a relatively consistent identity value. Therefore, people think that oil painting has more investment opportunities and more room for appreciation. In fact, the price for reading and selling products is only one aspect. To see if a work can appreciate, we must consider many factors, and the space for future appreciation is even greater. In fact, we may wish to invest more in art as a work of art, an act of enjoying collections and enjoying fun. How to buy a good work is a question that collectors have always been concerned about.

First of all, to buy oil paintings, investment in oil paintings must be liked oil paintings. If you do not like oil paintings yourself, just make money for investment, then it is best to invest in stocks because oil paintings cannot be shot in time, so this can be very painful.

To buy your favorite paintings, you must first realize the consumer value of oil paintings and send the “Nine-character Scriptures” for your reference: “Hang, send, and sell.” That is: hanging in your home to make yourself happy; Friends and friends are happy; the transfer sells a good price and they both enjoy it. Whether it is investment collection, or home decoration, or friends and reciprocity, and business etiquette needs, oil painting can come in handy. So, as long as it is a painter's original oil painting, almost all of them have the value of consumption and investment. There is no clear line between consumption and investment in original oil paintings. The works of Chen Junde, Chang Qing, Weng Wei, and Wang Xiangming, which I collected for home decoration a few years ago, have now risen several times or even several times in price. This starts with consumption and finally invests. Although the art market has a prevailing style, a period may have more retro taste, realistic, classical works may rise faster; another time may be rebellious, contemporary abstract works may be very popular. However, the basic principles that can be adhered to are those that are loved by the individual and learn to appreciate others and are different from their own. The real art collection investment everyone has a very high artistic aesthetic vision. Hammer saw Chen Yifei's “Water Village” series from a sketch drawn by Chen Yifei for his live painting. He discovered a master for China. Is this the accident of Chen Yifei or the accident of Hammer? I think first because Hame really likes Chen Yifei's paintings. Imagine if you bought a painting and you feel like you can't hang it out, how can you give it to your friends? (Hammer gave Chen Yifei's “Double Bridge” to Deng Xiaoping)? How do you expect these paintings to sell for a good price? !

Second, we must evade three risks. Since art investment is a market behavior, it has inherent risks in the market. In addition to force majeure, we classify these risks as the risk of the following three types of counterfeit products: the purchase of counterfeit works of art; 2 The risk of speculation to follow the trend, speculators will fry some artists' paintings to a high point, and then you take over, Then all the way down, and finally you stuck. 3 The risk of multiple paintings. Some unscrupulous painters, and some of Jiang Lang's talented artists, once found that one of their works was very well sold, they would have a lot of "creation", which fundamentally claimed the artistic value of this work. Artwork is precious because it is unique. In this sense, a painting is also a kind of fake product, but it is a fake product created by the artist himself. To circumvent these risks, we suggest that:1 Investors who enter the oil painting market and do not enter the market should try to avoid buying the works of popular painters of the first and second line, because this is where the counterfeit goods are relatively concentrated; 2 can be purchased from some three, The paintings of the four-line painter and some of the unprofessed old-generation painters started with oil painting. The current market price of these paintings is very low and far from their due value. For example, the prices of many old painters such as Dai Bingxin, Yu Chenghui, Yan Xiwen, Zhang Huaqing, and Lu Guoying are mostly between 30,000 and 100,000. The market always wants to return value because it is the law of the market. 3 There must be a good way to buy paintings. The auction market is a better choice. Some well-known auction companies have stricter checks and it is difficult for fakes to enter. However, the auction market has a high cost, and the purchase price plus commission is often higher. For general investors, buying from galleries is the main channel. Should choose large-scale and high integrity of the gallery. At the time of purchase, the gallery should be required to specify the source of the sale. Generally well-organized galleries will provide an album with the signature of the artist himself, an identity document such as a photo, many well-known painters should also have publicly-published albums, and a few galleries also promise that there will be no reason for no damage or return service. More insurance.

Third, start with "small" and be careful about big paintings. Although there is a “reference price per square foot” in the oil painting market, buying a painting is not buying a cloth. It is definitely not worth buying. There is an interesting phenomenon. The smaller the oil painting market is, the smaller the works of everyone are, such as Yan Wenxuan, Liu Haisu, Zhou Bichu, Chang Yu, Chen Baoyi, and almost all older generation artists. Although there are reasons for the restrictions on economic conditions at that time, the main reason is their academic attitude. Gu Wengang, a Chinese master, is very opposed to students writing on big topics. He believes that those who are learning scholars are not solid enough for middle and young ages before, and it is not easy to make them bigger. Therefore, we have always taught our students that we should make a fuss over our knowledge. Similarly, those oil painting masters also paint with a learning attitude. Xiaozuo is a reflection of their rigorous creative attitude. Their "small works" are full of truth and are very fulfilling. Today many young artists paint more and more works. One shot is more than a square meter. Many even reach 2*3 meters. I really don't know where to go. The content is also very empty, and the reason is actually very simple, because their works were not prepared to sell to your home wall, they are staring at large and institutional investors. They want to draw big paintings "sell big money." Although there are also some great works in it, most of them are speculation, and most of them are unknown. In addition, these large-scale works for ordinary investors, the collection and preservation are very troublesome, has lost the value of consumption. We believe that for ordinary investors, oil paintings that have lost their consumer value are not worth investing.

Fourth, don't follow suit, don't understand, don't rebel, don't try to beat. We have always believed that the reason why works of art differ from others is because they are human spirits. They should be from the heart, so they can be appreciated and understood. Art works are not relativistic. It should be easy to communicate with people. Don't try to be silly with works that you cannot understand. Two years ago when we participated in the auction, some people recommended an expressionist work of more than 300,000 contemporary young and middle-aged painters, saying that the painter's painting prospect is very good. Sure enough, the artist's work is on the rise and it is said that it is now nearly a million. ***. However, I still can't understand what the artist is painting. I don't understand or understand it, I can't pretend to understand it, so I can't just buy it. I will not regret the loss of such "fortune opportunity", because I can't understand that there is no "face" at all, and there will be no "little child" when stuck. Ordinary investors are not big investors and professional organizations. For big families and institutions, even if half of the paintings they earn are not able to make money, the other half can still enjoy it. Ordinary investors do not have such strength, so don't buy a painting that you can't understand clearly with a “better one mind” mentality. Of course, unless you want to buy it and hang it on the wall to study it, this is another matter.

Fifth, to have a good attitude, investing in oil paintings must love oil paintings. The process of buying, admiring and collecting oil paintings is a process of enjoyment itself. If you can sell a good price in a few years, why not? According to the general law of Western art investment, it takes more than ten years for investment oil painting to go from purchase to sale. However, there are too many short-term speculations in China's current oil painting market. This is an impetuous mentality. We believe that for living painters, especially young and middle-aged painters, the price of short-term speculation is swiftly escalating, often with great risks. If a painter from a 30-year-old or a 40-year-old artist can be fired to several hundred thousand or even millions in a few years, think how many works he will “creat” in the future. Calculate this account.

It is still an old saying: Art is so precious because artists who create artworks cannot be mass-produced because artists can't create art in batches!

Therefore, we suggest that if you decide to invest in painting, please keep it for at least five years before you start.