Art investors and collectors can't protect and profit from their collections without grappling with a range of complex financial issues like risk, insurance, restoration, and conservation. In Fine Art and High Finance, Clare McAndrew and a highly qualified team of contributors explain the most...

Focuses on different regions (including China, Russia, India, and Japan) as well as different institutions and organizations to examine barriers to and effects of globalization on the art market's organizational dynamics and people within the art industry

Economic Disruption and the Monetisation of French Collections -- Samuel Courtauld as Private Collector and Public Donor -- Albert Barnes as Currency Opportunist and 'Visionary Art Educator' -- Kojiro Matsukata and the Economics of Rodin in Japan -- Institutional Inertia and the National Gallery...