Piece by piece: the issues with fractional ownership of art

Piece by piece: the issues with fractional ownership of art

Some two years ago, fractional investment in art was the hottest topic around. On panels in art market centres in New York, Basel or London, speakers enthused about how selling shares in works of art could transform and democratise the art market. They said that even the small investor could own a share in, say, a multi-million-dollar Picasso.