Commercial Galleries & Art Dealers Associations
The Fine Arts are vast fields of activities that are aimed at Creativity, Finesse, Economics, Legacy, and Heritage. Beginning with Archaeology – the evidence and proof of past civilisations, including Architecture – the built environment to house our institutions, and wide range of cultural activities, structures storing societies valuables, buildings to secure and protect our body of living flesh, and many other things.
The long list that follows the first two in the field of creative art activities, are too numerous to mention here. Archaeology and Architecture are now located somewhere outside, the world of the Fine Arts.
The commerce, business, and finance of the arts, with its serious collectors, and other high-flying purchasers. Appears to be beyond the reach, and pockets of the general public.
People enjoying art exhibitions in museums and art galleries are fine, it’s a good way to pass time. Yet, the question of owing art is rarely considered by ordinary people. The multi-million price of works by popular artists, sold at frenzied auctions, reflects a world of others. Where ordinary people cannot participate. It is simply unaffordable.
COLLECTING ART
Affordable original art and limited-edition prints, are available to everyone thinking about starting a collection of art.
To display your love of a particular style, or type of art works. This is how to start collecting.
Visit local, national, and international art galleries, prioritise your interest, find and target your taste and type of art. You can get unlimited pleasures, living with visual arts. Over time the feelings and emotional fulfilment are intensified.
There is much on offer, buy what you love, and can afford. Try to go beyond what is visible to the eyes. Consider meanings with logical reasons, visible in the art works. See and feel, if any form of connection exists, with the art works of choice.
When buying, keep all paper works, info, and evidence of purchase on file. These are important items, if and when you decide to part with the work.
COMMERCIAL ART WORLDS
The commercial art worlds are not a series of retail stores, where there is art for sale, and you simply buy. Nowadays, regardless of how convenient it may be to view art online or being on a good mailing list. Nothing beats seeing the works of art, face to face.
All business groups in the commerce of arts have their rules, both spoken and unspoken. It takes time to know what they are. When approaching commercial galleries, the best way to begin is by building good relationships.
The leading commercial art galleries have a global profile, with branches or locations in all the popular cities around the world. These galleries represent blue chip clients and artists, with works selling for millions in any currency.
Their artists are collected by super-rich individuals, and corporate clients. Who view and participate in buying art as an investment. Instead of only for the joys of living with the creativity.
Inside the top leading art galleries, do not think that because something is for sale, you are able to buy it. Some galleries place the works of their artist, within important collections. Not only within corporate collections, but also within the art collections of specific public museums around the world.
NEW CLIENTS
To understand how best to serve you, in relation to the works they hold. Where there is not a relationship between a potential client and the gallery. The managers may ask you to share additional information about you, and your needs.
From their list of artists, many galleries reserve new art works for waiting customers, with whom they have a long-standing on-going relationship. The gallery also protects the symbol of prestige for their professional business, the image of the artist, including the welfare of their signed artists.
Their artists also, may want to have some control over where their work goes, and what happens to it. Even in the journey of their art works through the secondary marketplace of sold – resold and resold again. Changing ownership many times.