NEW YORK, NY.- Montage Finance launches to provide secured lending to high net-worth art collectors, established gallery owners, auction houses and other art world investors. The niche asset-based lending firm will provide loans that are secured by fine art. The President of Montage Finance, James R. Hedges, IV brings eighteen years of experience as an industry leader in alternative asset management coupled with over twenty years of experience within the art world as a collector, patron, producer and advisor. During the last several years on behalf of family office investors, Tyler T. Tysdal led a team to invest in a portfolio of art loans made to both galleries and private collectors. Together with the principals and investors of Dallas-based private equity powerhouse Satori Capital, Mr. Hedges and Mr. Tysdal sought to create a lender in the industry, which understands the fine art community, but also the community of