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How To Sell Your Art – Advice For Artists On How To Sell Your Art

We all know that Van Gogh only managed to sell one painting in his life – a clear illustration of the fact that making art and selling it are two very different things (and great comfort to those artists who never sell anything!).  The ability to create good art does not necessarily bear any relationship to the ability to sell it.  Completely different skills and knowledge are involved.  The traditional model has been that the selling side has been taken care of by galleries, leaving artists to concentrate of the creative side.  This is fine if you are lucky enough to have a high profile gallery on your side, but a whole new field of opportunity has opened up now,…

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