{"id":80128,"date":"2025-09-23T03:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/80128\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T03:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:56:13","slug":"major-collection-of-old-masters-paintings-could-be-fractionalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/80128\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Collection of Old Masters Paintings Could Be Fractionalized"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThomas S. Kaplan<\/a>, the billionaire investor who has amassed a particularly rich collection of Old Masters paintings, said he may soon fractionalize his art holdings, meaning that they could be offered as shares on a public stock exchange.<\/p>\n

\n\tKaplan\u2019s for his holdings, known as the Leiden Collection<\/a>, were revealed on Monday in an interview<\/a> with the Art Newspaper, which reported that he currently owns more Rembrandt paintings than any other private collector.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Leiden Collection also includes many other key works by Dutch and Flemish Old Masters, including Johannes Vermeer\u2019s Young Woman Seated at a Virginal (ca. 1670\u201375), one of three dozen paintings by the artist in existence. The collection is also host to works by Frans Hals, Gerard ter Borch, Pieter Brueghel, Jan Steen, and other major figures of their era.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWorks from the Leiden Collection are regularly loaned to Old Masters blockbusters, with the Vermeer painting in a once-in-a-lifetime retrospective for the artist held at the Rijksmuseum in 2023. The Leiden Collection is also the subject of a traveling show due to open at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, in October.<\/p>\n

\n\tKaplan told the Art Newspaper that he had made the decision to fractionalize the collection because his children had \u201cno interest in material objects\u201d and \u201cno idea what to do\u201d with all the art.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think assets, such as really great art, are going to multiply manyfold because they are truly scarce, and there\u2019s so much money sloshing around that will need a home and this is a great value proposition,\u201d Kaplan said in the Art Newspaper interview. \u201cTo my mind the best way to evangelize for Rembrandt is by giving millions, maybe tens of millions, of ordinary people the opportunity to own a Rembrandt.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPer the Art Newspaper, Kaplan got the idea of fractionalizing the collection from the NFT craze of the early 2020s. But thankfully, it does not appear that Young Woman Seated at a Virginal is exactly being offered as an NFT, at least for now.<\/p>\n

\n\tEither way, however, it is a big shift for Kaplan\u2019s collection, which he began in 2003. With his wife Daphne Recanati Kaplan, he began purchasing art active and quickly, at \u201ca rate of about a painting per week,\u201d he once told the New York Times<\/a>. He continued buying at that rate until 2008, and while he does still periodically acquire art, he does so \u201cat a slower rate,\u201d per the Times.<\/p>\n

\n\tA self-proclaimed \u201cRembrandt evangelist,\u201d Kaplan lent works from his 250-piece collection anonymously until 2016, when the Louvre mounted a show about the Leiden Collection. The collection\u2019s monetary worth has never been reported publicly.<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier this year, Kaplan also revealed plans to sell a Rembrandt drawing of a lion<\/a> to benefit Panthera, a wildlife conservation group. The drawing was priced in the \u201cmultiples of tens\u201d of millions, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas S. Kaplan, the billionaire investor who has amassed a particularly rich collection of Old Masters paintings, said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[11845,365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17,53803,53804],"class_list":{"0":"post-80128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-artnews-top-200-collectors","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-leiden-collection","19":"tag-thomas-s-kaplan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}