Leiden Collection to start selling Shares in Rembrandts?
September 23 2025
Picture: Leiden Collection
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
News broke yesterday that Thomas Kaplan, founder of the Leiden collection, is considering 'fractionalising' his art holdings (ie. selling shares in the famous artworks in the collection).
According to the article linked above:
Kaplan told the Art Newspaper that he had made the decision to fractionalize the collection because his children had “no interest in material objects” and “no idea what to do” with all the art.
“I think assets, such as really great art, are going to multiply manyfold because they are truly scarce, and there’s so much money sloshing around that will need a home and this is a great value proposition,” Kaplan said in the Art Newspaper interview. “To 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.”
