If you want to make millions in the Latin American art market just buy a great and well known piece of contemporary art from a well-known artist and sit on it for 500 years!

Well, that is one method and hey, it might work. But there are a number of Latin American artists around now whose work is still very reasonably priced and could very well appreciate rapidly over the next decade. There is Jose Bedia, Francisco Toledo, Tomas Sanchez, Claudio Bravo, De Szyszlo, Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Miguel de la Espriella (“Noble”) or even Fernando Botero just to name a few.

Yes, strange though it may seem you can still get a very well priced Botero if you look around carefully. In Colombia there are a number of companies and dealers who will do so for you. So if you are a serious art investor you may well still be able to take advantage of international conditions and the internet.

The development of the internet in relation to art investment means that Latin art work is today experiencing a renaissance of sorts in the art market with regional artists such as Peru