Increasing The Value Of Your Art
the way it displays, but after you’ve made sure that your artwork is being displayed to its best what else can you do to add to its worth?
The first and most important thing you should do is make sure that your artwork is signed legibly. It’s surprising how many people forget to sign their art, but it makes a big difference to the buyer. A signed piece of work is worth more money than an unsigned one, and it doesn’t matter whether you sign it on the front, at the top or bottom, within the composition, or even on the back, just as long as you sign it. If you have an illegible signature spare a thought for future generations trying to make out what it says and wondering whether they have a piece by a famous artist. The first thing almost everybody wants to know about any piece of artwork is who made it, what’s the name of the artist. If it’s unsigned it’s almost as
