Inside Splint Invest's Art Collection: The Artists Behind 295 Works

Splint Invest's Art category currently lists 295 fractional art investments, released between December 2022 and July 2026, from more than 90 named artists and estates. The catalogue runs from museum-name Post-War and Pop Art figures — Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein — to a concentrated street art presence led by Banksy, an Asian contemporary abstraction cluster, a photography tier, and a bench of contemporary painters who are still in the middle of building their auction and gallery track records. Combined, the 295 assets represent roughly €24.8 million in original release value, with individual pieces ranging from €20,100 to €576,569 for Mario Carreño's 1943 painting Colonial Patio, the collection's single highest-valued release to date. Where a piece from this analysis is currently open for investment, we've noted the live Splints remaining and target return; those figures reflect availability at the time of writing and may change as investors buy in.

Post-War and Pop Art Anchor the Collection Historically

The oldest and most art-historically significant works come from the Post-War and Pop Art canon. Mario Carreño's Colonial Patio (1943) is the earliest work by creation date. Andy Warhol appears with Liz (F. & S. 7), 1964–1967, and Flowers prints from 1970; Keith Haring is represented by 1984 subway drawings and a 1987 Pop Shop screenprint; Roy Lichtenstein's Composition 1 (1996) and Jean-Michel Basquiat's Boxer-Rebellion (1982/2018 estate edition) sit alongside David Hockney prints spanning 1980's Paper Pools to 2010's Yosemite Suite. These names carry the collection's highest individual valuations and its clearest secondary-market comparables.

That Pop lineage isn't purely historical. British painter Will Martyr, trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art, extends it into the present with sunlit, Pop-inflected compositions held in 18+ collections, including the Al Quasimi Royal Collection and Prudential. His painting There Is So Much More To Come (2025) is currently open for investment, with 667 of 1,189 Splints still available and a targeted 21.5% p.a. return over a 2–4 year horizon. Learn more

A Deep Bench of Contemporary Painters Building Market Recognition

Alongside the historical anchors, the collection's largest stylistic group is contemporary figurative and expressive painting by artists who are still in the middle of building their institutional and market profile — this is where a short biography tells you more than a release count.

Raghav Babbar (b. 1998, near Delhi) studied at Lasalle College of Art, Singapore, and began an MFA in painting at the Royal College of Art in 2022; he now lives and works in London. Since 2021 he has held solo shows in London, Venice, Singapore and Stockholm — and in 2023, his painting The Coal Seller sold for USD 733,638 at Sotheby's London, a striking auction result for an artist still in his twenties.

Móyòsóré Martins (b. 1986, Lagos) is a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist who moved to New York in 2015 after years in computer science. His work draws on Yoruba heritage and spirituality and has appeared in Sotheby's New York and Phillips auctions, making him one of the most closely watched emerging African artists internationally.

Ksenia Pasyura (b. 1986) is a London-based painter whose large-scale, surreal figures — wide smiles, exaggerated proportions — merge portraiture with abstract expressionism to probe the relationship between body and psyche.

Britt Boutros-Ghali (b. 1937, Norway) is the collection's most decorated living painter: an Egyptian-Norwegian abstract expressionist exhibiting since her 1965 Paris debut, awarded Norway's St. Olav's Order by King Haakon in 1996 (a decoration also held by Edvard Munch), and given a Lifetime Achievement Award for Women in the Arts by Egypt in 2023.

Elitsa Ristova (b. 1991, North Macedonia) is a London-based portraitist whose feminist figuration has shown at KIAF Seoul and the ZOYA Museum in Slovakia since her 2021 solo debut.

Berlin-based Konstantino Dregos (b. 1977, Athens) belongs to this same bench. His auction prices per square centimetre grew at a 54.3% CAGR between June 2018 and October 2025, and his Prima Materia series was presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami in 2025. His latest work, Prima Materia II (2024), is currently open for investment ahead of its release, with all 1,063 Splints available and a targeted 21.0% p.a. return over a 2–4 year horizon. Learn more

These aren't names with decades of secondary-market history — that's the point. They represent the layer of the collection where relevance is being built in real time, through gallery representation, institutional shows and early auction results, rather than already priced in.

Banksy Leads a Concentrated Street Art Presence

Street and urban art form a distinct, recognisable cluster: Banksy alone accounts for 18 releases between 2023 and 2026 — including Girl With Balloon, Laugh Now, Banksquiat and Nola — making him the most frequently featured single artist in the collection. KAWS adds three releases, from the Blame Game print portfolio to a Companion Chair and a KAWS x Dior BFF Plush Set, and French street artist Zevs contributes four works reworking Monet's Swimming Pools and Richard Prince's cowboy imagery.

RETNA extends that lineage with a calligraphic script fusing ancient writing systems with graffiti; his work is held at MOCA, LACMA and the Pasadena Museum of California Art, with collaborations spanning Nike, Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Justin Bieber. His unique, signed piece Gold Standard (2025) is currently open for investment, with 691 of 2,199 Splints still available and a targeted 22.9% p.a. return over a 3–5 year horizon. Learn more

Asian Contemporary Abstraction: From Movement Pioneer to International Market

Choi Myoung Young (b. 1941) is a founding-generation figure of Dansaekhwa, the Korean monochrome movement that emerged in the 1970s; his Conditional Planes series, built from repeated physical gestures on the canvas, is shown by galleries including Almine Rech. Minjung Kim (b. 1962) trained in traditional Korean ink painting before developing her signature technique of burning and layering mulberry hanji paper, drawing international attention including a TEFAF feature. Feng Xiao-Min, Zhou Song and Ryo Kato round out this cluster of process-driven, restrained abstraction.

Fine Art Photography Adds a Third Medium

Photography is the collection's third medium at scale, led by David Yarrow's large-format wildlife and staged Americana imagery — Welcome to the Jungle, Stratton Oakmont, Pride Rock — alongside Terry O'Neill's celebrity portraiture of David Bowie and Frank Sinatra, and Jason Boyd Kinsella's portrait work.

Yarrow's Cypress Point Colour (2026), a large-format archival pigment print of a Ferrari 750 Monza set against Tuscany's Cypress Point landscape, is currently open for investment, with 901 of 1,190 Splints still available and a targeted 19.3% p.a. return over a 2–4 year horizon. Learn more

Latin American and Iberian Names Round Out the Roster

Fernando Botero, Mario Carreño, Gustavo Nazareno and Dairo Vargas bring a Latin American through-line, from Botero's signature volumetric figures (Flautista, Seated woman) to Nazareno's and Vargas's contemporary Brazilian and Colombian painting.

What the Mix Signals

The 295-work Art category is built on three tiers: a small set of blue-chip, museum-recognised names that anchor historical credibility and the highest valuations; an established street and contemporary tier led by Banksy and KAWS; and a bench of contemporary painters — Babbar, Martins, Pasyura, Boutros-Ghali, Ristova, Dregos and others — actively building the gallery representation and auction records that typically precede a wider re-rating in value. That structure pairs recognisable names with genuine depth across artists, geographies and career stages.

How many artists are represented in Splint Invest's Art collection?

More than 90 named artists and estates are represented across the 295 releases in Splint Invest's Art category, from Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat to emerging contemporary painters.

What is the price range for Splint Invest's art investments?

Individual art releases on Splint Invest have ranged from €20,100 to €576,569, with an average release value of roughly €84,000 per asset.

Does the collection include living, still-emerging artists?

Yes. Alongside blue-chip names like Warhol and Basquiat, the collection includes early- and mid-career painters and photographers such as Raghav Babbar, Móyòsóré Martins, Konstantino Dregos and David Yarrow, several of whom currently have Splints available for investment.

Capital at risk. Past releases, valuations and return figures are historical and do not guarantee future performance. Splints-remaining figures reflect availability at the time of writing. Please review the full investment documentation before investing.