Li, Yuexin; Ma, Marshall Xiaoyin; Renneboog, Luc - 2021
We study price determinants and investment performance of art based on a vast sample of transactions around the world … over the past 60 years. Art has appreciated at a real (nominal) annual return of 2.49% (6.24%). Higher art returns are … reached for paintings at high-end of the price distribution, for oil paintings, for more recent art movements, for …