Selling & valorization
How to get an artwork attributed: the institutional path
Institutional attribution requires submitting your piece to the recognized authority for that artist: the foundation, archive, or cataloguer whose name appears in premium auction records. You send high-resolution photographs, provenance documentation, and a written description; they assess (months to years), and if accepted, issue a certificate or archive number. This stamp is what premium buyers and auction houses require — your personal certainty means nothing to the market.
The Method's take
The Method's oracle rule: the market pays certification, not correctness. Read the credits in top-tier catalog entries to find who certifies record lots in your artist's category; that is your gate. The stamp costs hundreds to thousands and is paid without discussion IF the piece passes — but most submissions are rejected (uncommon work only). If refused: wait years and retry with new evidence, or step down the attribution ladder and sell at the lower rung with liquidity.
The math
A refused piece that you bought believing in your own eye can lock €5,000–50,000 in dead stock for years; selling it as 'attributed to' or 'school of' recovers 20–40% of full-name value, if it moves at all. Fighting without the institutional road wastes time and capital. The 24-hour Insider pass is €100; the annual pass €3,800 — what one attribution mistake costs in a single weekend of FOMO bidding.
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