🔥 Legacy vs. Liquidity + Tracey Emin

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HEY Y’ALL!

Thanks for all the great feedback on the Tomokazu Matsuyama piece I shared last day!

🔥 ICYMI – Catchs from the Last Week:

1. Michael Childress, Aurummm, 2021 - priced at £4,000

2. Russell Young, Marilyn Crying, 2013 - priced at £23,000

3. Luigi Ontani, Artiglio Cartiglio, 1982 - priced at at £11,500

Today we have a Tracey Emin, limited, raw, and priced before the post-Dame spike really hits. And top collectors swap liquidity for legacy-building donations.

-Today’s Catch-

Tracey Emin

💭 My 2 Cents: It’s called No! This is sad… which, let’s be honest, is exactly how half the art world feels every time they see another overpriced print. But this one? Actually hits. Emin’s 2022 litho captures that classic Emin cocktail: raw grief, no filter, and just enough painterly chaos to look expensive. The title reads like something you'd text at 3am, and the figure? Barely there, which somehow makes it feel more present. Emin’s post-cancer output is brutal and brillian. It’s not pretty. It’s personal. And that’s what sells.

🔑 Key Numbers: Edition of 50, priced at £9,500. Similar works from this series have popped at £12k+ in resale, especially after the Strozzi and Yale shows this year. Big institutional push + her Damehood + smaller output = collector FOMO. Just don’t expect a hockey-stick chart, this is emotional equity, not a tech IPO.

🧠 Why It’s a Smart Pick: You’re not buying this for the flip. You’re buying it because you get it, and you know it’s safer to bet on Emin’s sadness than most artists’ hype. It’s still under 5 figures, for now. That won’t last.

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🔥 Words I Like: prestige, positioning, offload

Legacy Is Beating Liquidity—and Fast

Forget the quick resale flip. Big collectors are ditching the auction block and calling curators instead.

And no, it’s not just about feeling generous.

It’s about leverage.

Donating a masterpiece to a top museum =

→ Tax advantages that would make your accountant weep with joy.

→ Name recognition baked into the cultural canon.

→ Permanent positioning of your collection as “museum-worthy.”

Jorge Pérez knew exactly what he was doing with that Joan Mitchell.

He didn’t just give away a painting, he cemented status.

Meanwhile, his name will live in every future Tate catalogue footnote like a ghost with perfect timing.

And guess what? That move also takes a 7-figure piece off the market, tightening scarcity for the rest.

Translation: prices for comparable works go up.

Everyone wins, except the guy still sitting on inventory waiting for Frieze.

The collectors who get this are already curating their “afterlife portfolios.”

Dealers and advisors are shifting gears too. If you’re not helping your clients place work institutionally, you’re leaving status (and money) on the table.

A power strategy dressed in a museum label.

Legacy has become the sexiest kind of control.

And for now, it’s outpacing liquidity by a mile.

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