What's The Point In Owning An Original Art Piece If You Can Get An Accurate

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What's The Point In Owning An Original Art Piece If You Can Get An Accurate Reproduction?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: You can loan it to a museum and get a tax break for it. Because there is only one real one.
(Seeing the Eiffel tower at kings Island is not the same as Paris) Most art pieces (the original) can be put on loan as the first answer suggests, and be paid a use fee.

Most originals are used as investments, a signal of flagship.

The iris's, spent many years in offices all over the world, in and out of auction houses.

It continually kept millions of dollars floating from ownership to ownership with the shortest period of investment being about five years.

Artworks are still in many ways a clearing house for money, and by those who really have no idea of the art itself, with very few philanthropists.

A tax break for redecorating the office.

Art collecting is always a selfish sport, and never do you get to see a nice piece of work until it hits a museum wall, of which you'd be lucky to see less than 10% of these era driven cultural riches.