I mentioned in my previous post about how Sue and I had to make investments to create a pension.  When I realised that our shares-type investments were all doing badly, I decided that the time had come to “diversify” as the jargon goes.

At about the same time, a company sent me an invitation to invest in some established-artist artwork.  Now I know nothing about this, and so was extremely cautious about the idea.  However it seemed like a good concept, after enquiries into the company (Collins and Kent) and into the whole idea.  One of the troubles for someone like me is: how does one know what an item is actually worth?  There is no easy way to tell or find out.

To cut a long story short, we bought a short series of signed prints by Joan Miro, the Spanish artist, called the Graveur prints.  One is shown above, here are the others:

They are each about 60 x 90cm

What are they worth?  No idea.  What did we pay for them?  Compared to the second question, I have no idea about the first.  How will we turn them into tangible assets (ie money) when the time comes?  That, I now realise, is the key question to which I have no answer!