Pricing your art

[Richard Monro]

Almost every year I do a survey of art pricing to determine how my art should be priced. Over the years that I have been doing this, I have discovered that art prices have a common denominator that holds true regardless of the type of art being sold. Portrait, figurative, landscape, abstract and virtually any other category of art is (knowingly or unwittingly) priced by the square inch. The range of prices per square inch tends to reflect the quality of the art and in the higher price ranges an artist