Founded in 2005, Copal Art is a leading Indian Art Advisory and Placement Firm with a vision to ‘create wealth with aesthetic pleasure’. Copal, over the past five years has been firmly committed to its core business philosophy of creating new collectors and promoting Indian art. Copal in the past has launched three Copal Art Portfolio Series – an innovative and inimitable delivery linked art investment model that allows new collectors to understand & purchase undervalued and future potential artist’s artworks as long term investment and at the same time they gets to embrace aesthetic wealth.

Growth of Copal Art

Since its inception, Copal Art has grown to become one of the largest Delivery Linked Art Fund and has created its own art bank where around 3000 artworks are placed.

Through its focus on hard core research backed analysis, Copal Art has today, grown into one of the largest advisory firms in the Indian art market. Copal in the past has marketed and successfully launched three Art Fund Series called CAP Series, first two of $2 Mn each, the third one, being Asia’s largest for $ 30 Mn in 2008. Copal is credited to create largest base of first time art collectors.

Events of Copal Art

To realize its vision of promoting Indian Art across the globe, Copal Art organizes many initiatives to educate and engender awareness, some of which are:

• 'Artwise', an initiative with Bloomberg UTV• Copal Dialogue –Looking at Art Series• Copal Tour – Copal Art Collector's tour to the Copal Art Bank & Team• Fellowships• Sponsorships of Literary & performing arts festivals• Meet the Artists• Felicitation of Eminent members of Art Fraternity

Copal Art Vision

Copal aspires to ensure that at least one space, living or working around every human being should have an original work of Art.

To create new art collectors

To widen the base of new collectors by way of knowledge sharing and by reaching out to them through a systematized structured programme.

To make the experience of owning art, its collection and appreciation a truly noble and enriching activity.

To identify underappreciated Indian art across the global and showcase it to the world; and bestow it with its long overdue recognition.

To institutionalize and corporatize the business of art in the global arena.

To build a belief that the scope of Art as an asset class is colossal and is one of the safest asset lasses available in the global souk.

To establish a world class search and research module on the Art Industry.

COPAL’s OBJECTIVE1. Educate People on Art

2. Create more number of collectors

3. To make money for our clients/collectors

EDUCATE PEOPLE ON ART

Educate people on art via daily mass mails, monthly newsletter, research reports, monthly events etc.

CREATE MORE NUMBER OF COLLECTORS

Copal is credited for creating over 1000 first time art collectors over last 4-5 years through its efforts and has proved his ability of reaching to them through financial markets.

MAKE MONEY FOR CLIENTS/COLLECTORS

Advice and create tailor made portfolio for our clients. Art portfolios are constructed to suit individual needs by a panel of senior art experts. The portfolio consists of artworks by underappreciated and future growth artists, who have been identified by Copal after an extensive & thorough research work has been carried out.

KEY PEOPLE ON BOARDShri Ashok Vajpeyi, ChairmanShri Ashok Vajpeyi, Chairman of the National Academy of Arts (Lalit Kala Akademi) and Chairman of Copal Art. He was the Joint Secretary, Culture for Government of India from 1992-2003. Shri Vajpeyi has been decorated by Government of France and Poland for his cultural contributions.

He is also the recipient for various national awards such as Sahitya Akademi Award, Kabir Samman, Dayavati Modi’s Kavi Shekhar Samman.

Mr Ajay Seth, Chief MentorChief Mentor of Copal Art with more than 34 years of experience across marketing and financial services, including his role as CEO & MD for an FMCG firm.

An avid art collector himself, Mr. Seth is also on the forefront of other art promotion initiatives such as ‘Raza Foundation’, ’Global Art Movement’ etc. Mr. Seth has also been invited as a speaker to various art collector and investor forums such as ‘Millennium club of Mumbai’ etc.

Mr Sudip Bandopadhyay, Board MemberMember of Copal’s Board of Directors. Sudip brings over 22 years of experience from the financial sector having held key positions such as the managing Director of Reliance Money and head of Treasury and Strategic Investments at ITC. He is currently the MD & CEO of Convexity Solutions.

He has been instrumental in leading several business forays at the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group and has managed one of the largest corporate treasury assets of the country at ITC.

FUTURECopal aspires to come up with Art District and Art Exchange in India. Copal also aspires to create an Art Bank equivalent to worth of US$ 250 Mn. Copal plans to expand its operations to key international locations (US, UK and UAE).

ART SELECTION BOARD

1. Ranjit Haskote: Art Critic & Poet

2. Ashok Vajpeyi: Art Critic & Poet

CRITIC’S PANEL

1. Ina Puri: Art Curator & Writer

2. Gayatri Sinha: Art Curator & Critic

3. Prayag Shukla: Art Critic & Poet

4. Kishore Singh: Writer & Editor

5. Varsha Das: Writer & Poet

6. Geeta Kapur: Art Critic

SERVICES

ART ADVISORY

CURATION

VAULTING

INSURANCE

LOGISTICS

VALUATION

RESEARCH

EXIT OPTION

RETAIL SERVICES

FRAMING

Art BankCopal Art has invested in all aspects that support the creation, promotion, research & distribution of Indian Art. The profound expertise of Copal Art Team and people associated with Copal Art has helped the company to build its own collection of over fifteen hundred artworks and simultaneously also helped its collectors to own artwork(s) of undervalued and future growth artists. Copal Art deploys its own funds in the art works at first after doing due diligence, and does not procure them on consignment basis (unlike other participants in the market). This makes Copal Art a truly collection oriented advisory firm. Copal Art attains art works from primary and reliable secondary sources after a comprehensive research backed analysis that has in its account, track of numerous infallible recommendations.

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Jasola District Centre,Mathura Road,

New Delhi - 110 025India

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New Delhi - 110 048, India

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