For centuries art was collected for its cultural, emotional, intellectual, political and economic value. 
 
Nowadays, collectors and investors turn to art for the benefits it offers such as asset protection, wealth preservation, portfolio diversification, low correlation with financial markets, profitability and other hedging possibilities in addition to its emotional and aesthetic qualities.

According to the Wealth Report 2023 of Knight Frank, the asset category art increased by 29% in 2022 and 91% over the last 10 years.

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Key factors for art as an investment:

Market Size 
The total market value of sales was estimated around $65 billion in 2021.&nbsp;

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Market Growth 
The $2.1 trillion global marketplace for art and collectibles will reach a forecasted $2,9 trillion by 2026.

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Trends 
Many auction houses and galleries shifted online. This has brought younger buyers to the market. Investors in general have increased their interest in art. As a result, the contemporary art market is setting a new trend for the future of art as an investment.

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We are committed to providing the highest standards of storage, maintenance and insurance of your equipment on your behalf. The associated costs will be shared between the splint holders and included as an ongoing cost in relation to each asset. So if you own 1% of a bottle of an art piece, your splint account will be charged 1% of the associated costs. Further details and breakdowns are listed in the factsheet for each investment. 
 
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When you sell an investment, you will be charged a flat fee of 2% of the transaction volume. This includes our expenses for sales on the secondary market, our costs for maintaining this market and our organisation of an asset sale at the end of the contract.

Why invest in David Salle? 
David Salle is an American artist who was born in Norman, Oklahoma, in September 1952 and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is recognized for his paintings and other works that juxtapose contrasting visual elements from popular culture. His creations often include allusions to Pop Art, imbued with a surrealistic vision. 
 
Early Beginnings and Education 
Salle came to art at a very young age. By the time he was eight years old, he was learning life drawing, and during high school, he regularly attended art classes. He later studied at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), earning a BFA in 1973 and an MFA in 1975, and trained under artists such as John Baldessari and Vito Acconci. 
 
Rise to Prominence 
The artist rose to prominence in the 1980s alongside a generation of painters like Julian Schnabel and Eric Fischl, who were working in a new expressionist mode. He is also associated with Pictures Generation artists such as Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, and Richard Prince, who reimagined mass-media imagery and advertisements in their works. Salle's first major gallery exposure was with Mary Boone, the renowned talent discoverer, who first exhibited his work in 1981. 
 
Representation and Recognition 
Today, Salle is represented by prestigious international galleries: Gladstone Gallery in New York and Brussels Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris and London Max Hetzler in Berlin Lehmann Maupin in Asia Skarstedt, the blue-chip gallery that hosted seven solo shows by Salle over the past decade, will remain active in the secondary market, though the artist is now represented by Gladstone in New York. 
 
Artistic Legacy 
Salle's paintings have been shown in solo and group exhibitions and in major international exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide for over forty years. His work can be found in the permanent collections of numerous prestigious institutions around the globe. 
 
Selected Solo Exhibitions 
Upcoming 2025: David Salle: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France - April. 
2024: David Salle: Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA - upcoming September. 
2024: David Salle: Works on Paper, Edward Hopper House Museum &amp; Study Center, Nyack, USA. 
2023: David Salle: The Sporting Life, Dylan Brant Fine Art, Palm Beach, USA. 
2023: David Salle: Tree of Life, This Time with Feeling, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac-Marais, Paris, France. 
2022: David Salle: Barbara Gladstone, Brussels, Belgium. 
 
Selected Group Exhibitions 
2023: About Art, Makasiini Contemporary, Logomo, Turkey. 
2023: Mapping an Art World: Los Angeles in the 1970s-80s, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, USA. 
2023: The Yellow Light at 6PM: Remembering, Envisioning, Sensing Landscape, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany. 
2023: Beautiful, Vivid, Self-contained, curated by David Salle, Hill Art Foundation, New York, USA. 
2023: Wave Pattern, Dylan Brant and Max Werner, New York, USA. 
 
Artistic Style and Philosophy 
Salle is also a prolific writer and critic whose essays and interviews have been published in various prestigious publications. His work is known for its compression and concision, exploring image juxtapositions and pairings of scale, color, and touch. Salle's paintings often feature background details drawn from advertisements, magazine photos, and newspaper articles, inviting viewers to decipher their conceptual connections to the foreground imagery. 
 
"In these paintings, I'm interested in compression and concision – the haiku rather than the ode. I'm working not just with image juxtapositions, but also with pairings of scale, color, touch and so forth. I want to see one thing through another; the so-called 'background' is really another character." - David Salle".

The price of 102,500€ includes the Splint Invest platform fee and external maintenance costs of 8,950€. 93,550 € can be allocated to the asset. 
Platform Fee Splint Invest: Compensation for the tokenization of the assets, the maintenance as well as the further development of the application and the costs related to the research and maintenance of the expert network. 
External maintenance costs: Shipping, handling, 4 years storage, and insurance.

Variable Costs

SEV Société des Entrepôts Vevey S.A., Port Franc, Av. Reller 1, 1800 Vevey, Switzerland

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Works on paper, slightly larger in size than the offered pictures, sold for $30,000 in 2020-2021. The current price of $50,000 for this series – ‘direct paintings’ on digital grounds – indicates a 67% increase over 2.5 years for this size and medium of work (equivalent to a 27% annual increase over the period).

Return

In terms of investment potential, art has consistently outperformed other types of assets such as the S&amp;P 500 and the FTSE 100 over the past two decades. 
 
The relative illiquidity of art works particularly in its favor, especially for assets that retain a stable value and exhibit minimal correlation with the stock market.

Stability

His work has been collected by major museums worldwide and featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions. This widespread acclaim not only solidifies his market reputation but also garners institutional validation.

David Salle, Untitled #2, #6

The global representation by prestigious galleries such as Gladstone, Thaddaeus Ropac, Max Hetzler, and Lehmann Maupin will likely continue to drive steady price increases for Salle’s works, particularly those on paper, likely to maintain double-digit returns.

Track Record

M&amp;A Arts represents the leading edge in art and finance, spearheaded by Asher Edelman, the renowned investor and art collector. With an unparalleled experience and extensive relationships in the art world, M&amp;A Arts offers deep knowledge and expertise in the financial aspects of the art market.

M&amp;A Arts is a Swiss company at the forefront of the art and finance sectors. It was founded in 2023 by Asher Edelman, the renowned financier and art collector, and his wife, Michelle Edelman, who has dedicated her career to managing, promoting, and placing international artists, connecting global opportunities with galleries, museums, art fairs, and private sales. 
Together, Asher and Michelle bring decades of experience and expertise and a unique vision to drive success in the dynamic realm of art and finance. Alongside a diverse team of experts in the fields of art, finance, and business, they have cultivated an unparalleled understanding of the intricacies of the art world. 
 
M&amp;A Arts is positioned to become a leader in art-related businesses, facilitating the creation of new investment opportunities by identifying and sourcing works by artists with the highest investment potential.

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Asher Edelman is an internationally recognized financier, art collector, and innovator in art finance. Asher began collecting art in the early 1960s, earning recognition for his early identification of artists such as Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Brice Marden, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. His passion for art led him to create the FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain in Pully, near Lausanne, which launched the first European retrospective exhibitions of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Roy Lichtenstein. He has also run various companies in the art sector, including activities related to lending, leasing, advisory services, and artist management. 
 
Michelle Edelman brings over 30 years of experience in branding, marketing, and Contemporary Art. She founded Traffic Creative Management and TRAFFICARTS, a leading creative agency and artist incubator in New York City, specializing in brand design and advertising, as well as the management, promotion, and placement of international artists with galleries, museums, art fairs, and private sales. 
 
Cedric Autet is a seasoned executive with wide expertise in financial operations and art finance. He has a proven track record of delivering value through strategic planning and execution of various art-related transactions, including lending, leasing and fractionalization.

This is an investment opportunity where we have recalculated the expected performance given by the external expert (M&amp;A Arts) and have thus verified that a positive return can be expected after deduction of all costs for storage and insurance.

Furthermore, we have verified the existence, the professional storage and the insurance of the artwork.

David Salle, Untitled #2, #6

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