Seller guides

Step-by-step guides for people selling art, each with real auction price ranges from the ArtSell database.

How to sell a painting you inherited — Inherited a painting and not sure what it's worth or where to sell it?
How to sell art from an estate — Executor or heir with art to sell from an estate?
Is my print worth anything? — How to tell whether your print is an original or a reproduction, what signed and numbered means for value, and what prints, signed lithographs and screenprints actually sell for at auction.
How to find out what a painting is worth — Free ways to find out what a painting is worth: identify the artist, compare real auction results by size and medium, and get a free auction estimate, with recorded price ranges for paintings and watercolors.
How to sell an art collection — Selling a collection of paintings, prints and sculpture?
Is my painting valuable? — How to tell if a painting is valuable: signature, original vs.
How to find and read an artist's signature — Where artists sign paintings, prints and sculpture, how to read a hard-to-decipher signature, monograms and estate stamps, and how to look the name up in recorded auction results.
Auction vs. gallery vs. online: where should you sell your art? — Compare the three main ways to sell art: auction, gallery or dealer, and online marketplaces.
How to tell if a painting is an original — Six quick tests to tell an original painting from a print, giclée or canvas transfer: surface texture, magnifier dots, edges, the back, signature and labels, plus what originals sell for at auction.