Luxury listings carry original art that clashes with staging. MoveArt turns that art into cash before your sign goes up.
Your clients have spent decades collecting. The result is walls full of original paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media pieces that reflect their taste — not your stager’s vision. At the $2M–$10M price point, this isn’t a minor detail. Buyers walk into a listing and see the owner, not the space.
Stagers work with neutral palettes and clean sightlines. A 60×48” abstract canvas in cadmium red is not neutral. Either the art has to go, or the staging works around it — and “working around it” costs the listing.
Art that comes down goes somewhere. Climate-controlled storage for large canvases runs $100–$400/month per piece. A 15-piece collection sitting in storage during a 90-day listing cycle costs real money — money your client doesn’t need to spend.
Sellers think about art on moving day. That’s too late to sell it well. Private buyers, galleries, and collectors need weeks of outreach. Rush sales mean fire-sale prices or art that follows the client to their next home — still unsold.
Clients rarely know what their art is worth. A piece bought at a Miami art fair in 2014 for $8,000 might be worth $22,000 today if the artist has built a market. That money is sitting on their wall, uncollected, while they pay movers to box it up.
We handle the art. You handle the listing. By the time you’re ready to stage, the walls are clear, your client has cash, and nothing goes into storage.
The math is simple. A client with 12 pieces of art has a choice: pay to move and store them, or sell them and pocket the proceeds.
12 pieces at $150/mo each = $1,800/month. 90-day listing = $5,400 spent on storage, art still unsold, client still has to move it at close.
12 pieces at $499 avg = $5,988 in campaign fees. But if average piece sells for $4,000, gross proceeds = $48,000. Net after fees: $42,000+.
5 or more pieces from a single property qualifies for bulk pricing. Contact us for a custom quote before your client’s listing preparation begins.
MoveArt charges a flat fee per piece — not a percentage of the sale. Your client keeps 100% of the sale proceeds. The fee covers cataloging, research, outreach, negotiation, and ongoing marketing. No auction house commissions. No gallery splits. No hidden costs.
Bring this up at the listing appointment, before staging is discussed. Frame it as asset optimization, not art disposal.
Large-format abstracts, figurative work, bold color fields, and sculptural pieces in central rooms. If it would be the first thing a buyer sees on a tour, it’s a candidate for clearance.
Ideally 8+ weeks before listing goes live. We can work with 6 weeks. Anything under 4 weeks is a rush and we may not be able to place every piece at full value.
Start with 2–3 pieces they already planned to donate or store. Small wins build trust. Once they see a real buyer pay real money, the rest of the collection follows.
Still worth doing. We can run a campaign for art currently in staging storage — it just means the cleared walls benefit the next property, not this one. Art finds a buyer either way.
Contact us for bulk pricing on 5+ pieces and to discuss a referral arrangement. We work directly with agents to make pre-listing art clearance a standard part of luxury listing prep.
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