1. Getting started

When an artist graduates from the Beaux-Arts or starts her professional studio: first there is the vertigo of leaving school or starting the practice, and then comes the anguish of being in ones studio, alone.

2. Exhibition

Some time later, the blessed moment of an exhibition proposal from a more or less renowned gallery owner arrives.

With joy and happiness, you will hand over your precious creations for a few weeks, hoping that they will all be sold (!) or expecting nothing less than to collect the works once the exhibition is over.

3. Negotiation

However, it has been several weeks and you still have not received the list of the sales nor the return of unsold works.

It's has been a while now and you suddenly discover that you don't even know what you had actually entrusted to this gallery, nor what the conditions were for the conservation and return of your works.

This is an example. Of course, the best can happen and that's all I wish for you.

4. Getting organised

Here is a suggested minimalist pre-exhibition checklist:

• Inventory of works submitted: date of creation, medium, title, price
• Date of arrival of the works at the gallery and estimated date of return
• Insurance of works during the exhibition and during transport
• Coverage of transportation costs
• Percentage of the resale price that goes to the Artist.
• etc.