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Each artwork on Tempo is rigorously selected by a board of distinguished experts. Commitment to discernment ensures that every acquisition is destined to enrich and refine you. Our standard is a mark of quality and exclusivity.
A painting by Jean Varda hangs over the bed at Anaïs Nin's home in Los Angeles. Photographed by Chris Mottalini.
Beyond mere decoration, art becomes the very pulse of a refined existence.
Thayaht’s bust of Filipo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of the Italian Futurism movement, looks over Owens’s living and working area. Photographed by Chris Wallace.
Art acquisition: a purposeful investment, yielding aesthetics, profound fulfillment and enduring value.
Works by Cy Twombly at the artist's home in Rome, Italy. Photographed by Horst P. Horst.
In an age of abundance, true luxury lies in judicious selection. This is our offering.
You can be sure that when purchasing an artwork from Tempo Art Select, a seasoned advisory board of experts selected this piece for our limited on-site curation.
Tempo is a single destination for acquiring works from some of the most critically regarded galleries in the country, as well as independent artists selected by the same standard. The people behind these choices have spent careers developing their eye, and what they return to consistently is an interest in artists who have proven their investment through time; through perseverance, a growing archive, evolution of thought, influence, and performance.
At Tempo, you are entering that continuum early. The works hand-selected for Tempo do not catch artists at the beginning of their career; they catch the artwork early in it's commercial journey. The works here sit at a ceiling price of $20,000. This, relatively speaking, is a point of entry into something that has already proven its staying power.
Here, everything that makes acquiring good art difficult has already been taken care of.