Artwork for future investmentArt auctions are always filled with a bold collector to buy at high pricesCredit Suisse Research Institute Institute late in 2010 released data that says the total wealth of Indonesia until mid-year 2010 reached U.S. $ 1.8 trillion, up fivefold in the last decade.Even predicted that wealth will grow to U.S. $ 3 trillion, which means doubled again by 2015.This growth according to Credit Suisse was the fastest in the Asia-Pacific region and at the same time encourage the emergence of the middle class.Although some of that wealth comes from ownership that can be said to be conventional, such as property, but unclear if the increase in wealth is also encouraging the development of other economic sectors.And one of the affected sectors are trade artwork.Since 2008 works of art Indonesia is already experiencing a boom with the soaring price of the works of Indonesian artists in a number of auction in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Jakarta, as told by a curator Amir Sidharta of Sidharta Auctioneer auction.And increased prices for some artists' works Indonesia experienced a remarkable improvement.Artwork for future investmentIndonesia's economic growth led to increased interest in works of art, its price, and can also be an investment.In a two-year''is any increase in price was fantastic, especially the classic works of Indonesian artists, such as greatly increased the Lee Man Fong, Hendra Gunawan and Soedjojono. Which had ranged up to hundreds of millions of two-three billion, soared into dozens of billions of dollars,''said Amir Sidharta.Indonesian young artist who is also not less interesting, among others, I Nyoman Masriadi. The work of artists from Bali who settled in Yogyakarta was successfully sold at Rp 6 billion in Sothebi's auction in Hong Kong.A number of other artists whose work is now also much sought after is the Agus Suwage, Rudy Mantovani, and Putu Sutawijaya.
