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Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959) Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) Takashi Murakami (b. 1962) Jacksonville Jaguars
Works by the Tokyo-based Enthusiasm for the polka- With 90% of his work owner; Forbes 400
painter—many of them mildly dot painting and sculpting valued under $10,000, member
unsettling portraits of young queen has abated since its things aren’t looking good

girls—have been rising in 2017 high. Kusama is sure to for the founder of Japan’s THE ANARCHY:

value since 2014. With some stay relevant, but a fall in postmodern “Superflat”
going for over $1 million, this her median price (to $19,000 movement. Despite a rela- THE RELENTLESS RISE OF
might be the last chance to this year, down about 25%) tively strong 2018, overall THE EAST INDIA COMPANY
jump on the Nara train. suggests caution. his work has been under- by William Dalrymple
performing for a decade.

Adam Weinberger BOOKS

Rare-book
dealer, founder of
RareBookBuyer.com

Finance Classics Written Works 19th Century Bibles The Anarchy

Stay bullish on finance. About China A historic 1782 Aitken (Bloomsbury, 2019)

Early editions of clas- British diplomat Lord Bible (the first printed in is a fascinating look
sics can be pricey, Macartney’s 1793 mission the new United States) can
but a signed copy of to China to establish trade cost $100,000, but that’s at how, essentially, ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHRIS LYONS: BIBLE: BRIDWELL LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, PERKINS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY; NARA BY TONY KYRIACOU-SHUTTERSTOCK;
John Brooks’s Business relations was a failure, the exception, not the rule: merchants from
Adventures, from 1969— but George Staunton’s Nineteenth-century Bibles, Great Britain took
which Bill Gates calls his 1797 account of it recently for example, can be found over India centuries
favorite business book— fetched $9,000. Rare books easily for a couple hundred ago by extracting
recently sold for just about the Middle Kingdom bucks, and buyers are South Asian riches,
$1,625 at auction. are strong, if stabilizing. scarce. adding value in
England and then
exporting those
Tim Ingles and MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS goods as their own.
But they did it while
Paul Hayday joined at the hip
with interests in
Directors at Ingles & India.
Hayday auction house
in London Growing up in KUSAMA BY BERNARD WEIL-TORONTO STAR-GETTY IMAGES; MURAKAMI BY TJ ROTH-SIPA-NEWSCOM
Pakistan, it was
ingrained in me that
the sun never set on
the British Empire,
so this story is close
to me. Sun Tzu’s The
Violins by Nicolas Lupot, Art of War is great
Cellos by G.F. Pressenda, circa 1810 Violins by Charles Jean and has stood the
circa 1845 The French craftsman is Baptiste Collin-Mézin test of time, but BUY, HOLD, SELL BY CHRISTIAN KREZNAR

Italy’s premier 19th-century famed for his fine copies Despite his technical skill, that’s a clichéd
violin artisan. Look for the of the Italian masters, Collin-Mézin’s precise but answer for a favorite
bold, balanced outlines particularly Stradivari. A uninspiring early-20th-
and rich red varnish of his rare wine-red version of an century French School style book. The Anarchy
mature period. Even at an instrument by 16th-century has fallen out of fashion. is a study on early
average of $1.2 million, a luthier Guarneri del Gesù Call your auctioneer and capitalism and very

great investment. can command $400,000. sell at $5,000 to $8,000. well written.

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