Arts &amp; Handmade

How to sell art on Metzee

Original or print, and if a print, which kind. That one distinction carries the whole category.

buying

Buying art in a live auction

Ask whether it is an original or a print, and ask to see the back. Both answers change the price.

Pricing art for a live auction

An original, a limited print and an open print are three markets. Then it is size, medium and name.

delivery

Packing and posting art

Take it out of the frame if you can, never fold what was not folded, and protect the corners.

Describing the condition of artwork

Say what is on the surface, what is on the back, and what has been done to it since it was made.

What is your artwork worth?

Original or print decides the band. After that it is the artist, the medium and the condition.

Photographing artwork

Square on, daylight, no glare — and one raking shot so the surface exists.

delivery

Delivering artwork: courier, local or collection

Unframed travels. Framed is a decision, and usually the wrong one.

buying

Questions to ask before bidding on artwork

Original or print? Then show me the back. Two questions, most of the risk.

Storing and caring for artwork

Flat or hung, never leaning, and never with plastic against the paint.

Starting an art collection

Buy what you want to look at. Attribution is the expensive way to learn you were wrong.

Common mistakes selling art

Letting an attribution ride along inside a condition claim, and framing before the sale.