Art Buying Guides

How to buy a painting without regretting it: what to check, what to ask, and what a fair price looks like.

About these guides

Buying art online asks you to judge a physical object from a photograph, which is an unfair test. These guides even it out. They cover how to read a listing, which questions separate a serious workshop from a drop shipper, what a reasonable turnaround looks like for work done by hand, how to check that what arrives is oil on canvas rather than a printed surface, and what a certificate of authenticity should and should not claim. They also cover the boring but expensive details, like measuring the wall before you order. Our own answer to most of these questions is the same one: each painting is hand painted to order, we send you a photograph of the finished canvas for approval before it ships, and it travels rolled in a tube.

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