Art Collecting - New Purchase, Part 4

When you purchase a piece of artwork, there are several things you need to consider to protect your purchase. This is part 4 of a several part series of considerations and tips when you purchase art.

Keeping in touch with the artist after your purchase:

1. Get in touch with the artist and find out what other galleries that sell the artist's artwork.
2. Ask to be placed on the artist's mailing list
3. "Google" information about the artist.  Set up a google alert to be emailed to you whenever there is news about the artist.
4. Loan the artwork back to the artist if they want to do a retrospective.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3