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Lords of Art Finance

With $1 trillion of art in private hands, and only 5 percent of it leveraged, the art market is nowhere near as liquid as other asset classes. A new art-secured lender, backed by the Nahmads and selling discretion, aims to change that.

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Adam Chinn
“The art market has been powerful in its resistance to economic forces that have blown through every other market,” says IAF's Adam Chinn. Photo: Courtesy of Adam Chinn
Marion Maneker
June 18, 2025

Last summer, the big news in the world of art finance was that wealthy art buyers were tapping into their collections to invest in the then-roaring equity markets. This summer, it’s the emergence of a major new art-secured lender that has just come out of stealth mode: International Art Finance, a Nahmad family project managed by Adam Chinn, a former partner at Wachtell Lipton, co-founder of boutique investment bank Centerview Partners, and the former chief operating officer of Sotheby’s.

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