http://www.artbizblog.com/2008/08/for-your-best-art-buyers.html for the Business of Being an Artist Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:18:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.artbizblog.com/2008/08/for-your-best-art-buyers.html/comment-page-1#comment-5657 Christine DeCamp Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:21:53 +0000 http://www.artbizblog.com/2008/08/for-your-best-art-buyers.html#comment-5657 I would be happy to exchange a painting that someone wasn't completely satisfied with.....so far, it hasn't happened. I also would rather buy back a piece than have someone be unhappy with it. (I have trouble letting them go!) However, selling art in bulk to a museum with that option as a stated part of the bargain---I don't know. I would have to know the person who was representing the museum pretty well, and trust their judgement. Just because someone works for a museum doesn't make them trustworthy or ethical to deal with. I would be happy to exchange a painting that someone wasn’t completely satisfied with…..so far, it hasn’t happened. I also would rather buy back a piece than have someone be unhappy with it. (I have trouble letting them go!) However, selling art in bulk to a museum with that option as a stated part of the bargain—I don’t know. I would have to know the person who was representing the museum pretty well, and trust their judgement. Just because someone works for a museum doesn’t make them trustworthy or ethical to deal with.

]]> http://www.artbizblog.com/2008/08/for-your-best-art-buyers.html/comment-page-1#comment-5656 liza Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:42:30 +0000 http://www.artbizblog.com/2008/08/for-your-best-art-buyers.html#comment-5656 Sell back their purchases? Pretty scary. But we always allow people to return a painting within a reasonable time period if they find it doesn't work for them. I think it has only happened once. I was in a gallery in Santa Fe last winter and overheard the director talking about a new work that had just come in... it was a fabulous huge self portrait with every nose hair & freckle in precise detail. The director was saying that it was $18,000, but whoever was at the other end would receive their usual 20% discount. On the one hand selling an $18,000 painting is definitely cause for celebration, but I get a creepy Walmart feeling. Shouldn't art be price at the actual price that the patron will pay? Sell back their purchases? Pretty scary. But we always allow people to return a painting within a reasonable time period if they find it doesn’t work for them. I think it has only happened once. I was in a gallery in Santa Fe last winter and overheard the director talking about a new work that had just come in… it was a fabulous huge self portrait with every nose hair & freckle in precise detail. The director was saying that it was $18,000, but whoever was at the other end would receive their usual 20% discount. On the one hand selling an $18,000 painting is definitely cause for celebration, but I get a creepy Walmart feeling. Shouldn’t art be price at the actual price that the patron will pay?

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