Art contemporary collectors

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable, they had a principle is worth all the rest, the principle of pleasure!
~ Kenneth Clark on collectors

Collection includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, display, store, and maintain the elements. Therefore, a collection is a group of elements which have been compiled. And the person that performs the collection is a collector.

So far, everything is as easy as ABC. But these bare definitions cannot explain why occasionally an owner of a collection of more than $ 1 million will not sell, or anything, even if there is difficulty with living expenses. Nor he explain why some collectors spend their whole lives to their collections and are ready to almost just to obtain a final desirable piece to their collection? The answer is that, for many collectors, collecting is a way of life, almost equivalent to a form of belief and essential for their concept of life. Their collection represents their dream. And this feeling is higher than any price.

Art enriches us emotionally and culturally, it brings to our sense of life, mystery and beauty. It is therefore not surprising that art collection is so popular. Art is a passion for many billionaires and their collection is a favorite pastime, but it is also an important investment.

The financial crisis, the art market has fluctuated too in terms of stability and value. However, 2010 has become a point of departure of his recovery. As William f. Ruprecht, President and CEO of Sotheby, said, "that things become more, people with wealth return on the art market, and it gets better the more rapidly than the global economy." And when things deteriorate, our business is deteriorating even faster than the global economy. "It is faster on the way and the fastest on the way down." And the 14th annual World wealth report 2010, prepared by Capgemini and Merrill Lynch, confirms this statement, showing that art has become the most popular segment of the market of investments passion in 2010.

The list of Top 200 ARTnews collectors was prepared by widely read fine arts magazine ARTnews summer 2010, and a list of the top ten international art collectors corresponds to ten places with the Forbes billionaires list.

The list is:

-Roman Abramovich - modern and contemporary art
-H?l?ne and Bernard Arnault - contemporary art
-Debra and Leon Black - old masters, impressionism, modern painting Chinese sculpture, contemporary art
-Broad Eli - contemporary art and Edythe l.
-Alexandra and Steven a. Cohen - art of Impressionism, modern and contemporary
-Joseph Lau - modern and contemporary art (especially the works of Andy Warhol)
-Philip s. Niarchos - masters veterans, impressionism, modern and contemporary art
-Fran?ois Pinault - contemporary art
-Emily and Mitchell trades - modern and contemporary art
-Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammed Bin Saud Al-Thani - antiquities, Islamic art, old masters, contemporary art

Everyone on this list is an art collector: If you have money and a passion for art, you become a person on the list above. If you can't imagine your life without art, looking for a place in this list by research and the discovery of new artists; If you are a student in art, you have your favorite art collection; in Facebook or LiveJournal and even if you think that you have no connection with art, it is likely that when you travel simply abroad you still bring postcards of art museums you've visited, a part of your own small collection of art.

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