Contact the Artist: Tel. 214.381.7945
email: Ronald Gavinski

Investing in Art can be a very risky and speculative venture for the novice. Where to invest and how to invest in Art can be as intimidating as that first date. However, if you pursue Art more from the collecting point of view rather than looking as Art as an investment, you will find yourself enjoying Art so much more. We also believe you will make wiser purchasing decisions and not speculate on the true intrinsic value of the piece of Art.

• Invest in art because you like it and because it moves you, and because it will
  enhances your life. 

• Visit as many art galleries as you can, gallery staff can be helpful guides in
  your art education.

• Get on gallery mailing lists so you'll be invited to openings and special events.

• Visit and join your local Art Museums and Non Profit Art centers.
  Curators sometimes give lectures on collecting art.

• Attend National Art Expos and Art Fairs whenever possible.

• If you know art collectors talk to them and find out what they know and what they've learned about collecting.

• Read art and art history books or books on collecting art.

• Subscribe to a few art magazines.

• Read reviews by local and national art critics, but keep in mind that reviews usually just reflect one persons opinion.

• Once you've educated yourself and have fallen in love with
  a work of art.... buy it, take it home and enjoy it

Tips provided by Art-Collecting.com

The Art of Collecting Art
Article by Joan Oleck for BusinessWeek online

It was an intimate chat between a man and a woman in a bedroom that turned Rob Orley into an art collector five years ago. ''I felt I could feel the conversation,'' says Orley of the Christian Vincent painting that inflamed his passion for American-modern figurative art--a representational genre that seeks to depict humanity with an overlay of fantasy.