Lobus Information

Lobus is the asset management platform for fine art. Collectors, artists, artist estates, and the advisors who serve them have long managed extraordinary holdings on software that was never built for art — spreadsheets, aging databases, paper files. Lobus replaced that with one enterprise-grade system: a single place to manage a collection, its value, its documentation, and the relationships around it. The platform brings together what serious art management actually requires — collection and inventory management, portfolio analytics, dynamic market pricing, reporting, and relationship management — in software designed for the people who live with the work. Lobus also built something the art world had never had: a way for artists to keep a lasting stake in their own work. Using smart contracts, the platform can embed equity and royalty terms into a sale, so an artist can benefit as a piece appreciates and changes hands again, not only at the first sale. It was built by a team out of Christie's and Sotheby's who knew precisely what was broken. Lobus has managed more than $7 billion in art assets, for a client base that has included the Rothko family and the Louis Vuitton Foundation alongside hundreds of working artists, collectors, and estates.