How big of a commission does an art gallery get for selling a giclee of mine?

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That depends totally on the contract you have with the gallery. Overall, galleries get 40 - 50% for the sale of a painting (some well geographically placed galleries, or one's that provide a great deal of PR, catalogs, ads in upscale magazines, or even fund travel for the artist to produce a planned exhibition, will ask 60%). More for the sale of an individually signed and numbered Giclée digital print.

But that's per arrangement between the artist and his gallery.

Thank you. Actually I wondered why a gallery I know pays for wrapped canvas prints and only gives the artist $5 or $50. Seems they should get giclee cost plus 50% of profit so the artist benefits also.

Eeeper 4 months ago .

That's very low. $5 is utterly ridiculous for a giclée print on canvas. But then how much does the artist's original work sell for?

Is the artist bringing the gallery established recognition and repeat patrons? If so, the artist would never agree to selling his or her quality prints for a $5 to $50 commission. Was it the gallery that arranged for the high resolution image and the connection to the company that produced the giclee prints?

There are top printers who connect with museums and fine art galleries that are not easily accessible directly. Then the gallery gets example prints that have to be approved by the artist. They are usually printed on various materials like watercolor paper, canvas, Belgian linen or a high grade of paper.

Then an agreement is made basis saleability of the final product and the gallery holds the signed and numbered prints and sells them. They rarely do this unless they represent the artist and sell his original works. They maintain the gallery, pay for utilities, rent or mortgage, publicize and opening, keep lists of collectors of like work and contact them, provide food, wine and entertainment for an opening, provide hotel or lodging for the artist to attend the opening.

Some use their popularity to draw the interest of major art magazines for interviews and articles, OR they may invest a great deal of money for 1/4, 1/2 or full page, full color ads in major collector magazines to encourage sales. A gallery should work for their commission. It's a partnership.

I've seen signed and numbered giclée prints of original paintings that sold for maybe $25K plus sell for $3,000 to $5,000. More if the original painting sold for upwards of $100K .

Thank you. The artist sells for about 3k and the gallery owner pays for the prints but I'm aghast at what she gets. Eeeper 4 months ago .

I couldn't buy any kind of junk poster for $5. That's nuts. Why bother competing with the sale of original works for that.

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