Cost
The opening assessment
The opening assessment is not chargeable and commits you to nothing. Formal valuations for insurance or probate are a separate, charged service, quoted before it begins.
Sell a Work
See the numbers
before you commit
A written estimate, the comparable results behind it, and an honest recommendation about whether we are even the right house for it. All of that comes before any agreement.
How it goes
AB / CONSIGN
Send what you have
A photograph of the front, the back, and the signature, plus whatever history came with the work — a bill of sale, an exhibition label, a family recollection. Nothing needs to be complete, and an imperfect record is normal.
The opening assessment
Within five working days: what we believe the work is, an estimated range, and the comparable auction results that range rests on. If we are uncertain, the letter says where the uncertainty sits. No charge, no obligation.
Inspection and condition report
If you go on, the work is seen in person and examined under raking light. Restoration, retouching, and any structural issue is photographed and described. You get the report whether or not you sell.
Private sale, or auction
We recommend one and explain why. Where an open room would produce the better result, we say so and name the house that should have it — including when that means the work does not stay with us.
A written agreement
The house's commission is 20% of the sale price, for a placement of 30 days at the Art House. The reserve, and who carries transit and insurance, are stated before anything moves. Nothing proceeds until it is signed by both sides.
Settlement
On completion you receive the settlement statement and the Registrar's record of every movement the work made while it was in our care.
Before you write
AB / NOTES
Terms
20% commission, 30 days
A work placed with the house hangs at the Art House for 30 days. When it sells, the house's commission is 20% of the sale price. Transit and insurance are agreed in writing first.
Fit
Selective by design
The house takes on what it can document and place well. Where a work belongs with a different specialist, we say so plainly and name them, which is faster for you than a year on our books.
Age
If it is over a hundred years old
It may be an antiquity under the 1972 Act, which brings registration and export restrictions. We will tell you and direct you to the right authority. We do not deal in antiquities.
Never send an original document or the only photograph you have. Copies are enough to begin, and always will be.
Begin
Send the photographs
Front, back, signature, and any history you hold. You will have a written view within five working days.
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Works from the house
AB / WORKS
Abstract
A turquoise river and two gold forms
Prakash Bal Joshi. A wide landscape of water and sky worked almost entirely in turquoise, from pale aquamarine to deep ultramarine.
Figures & portraits
Embrace beneath the banyan
Sanjeev Sonpimpare. Two figures, one in deep ultramarine and one in pale cornflower, hold each other in the foreground, their forms cut from flat colour with scratches of red showing through.
Devotional & narrative
Vermilion face with Kamadhenu
Ramesh Gorjala. A large vermilion half face in profile, with a single green eye, anchors this square canvas.
Devotional & narrative
Lakshmi on the lotus, saffron profile
Ramesh Gorjala. A saffron face in profile, a gold ring at the nostril, sets the key of the canvas.
All works Abstract Figures Devotional Landscape Ravi Varma Press stones