If you searched “help me sell my art” and ended up here, you’re in the right place. We do the unglamorous part of selling art — researching the right buyers and writing 100+ individually personalized outreach emails — on your behalf, for a flat fee starting at $79.
Most people who type “help me sell my art” into Google fall into one of five buckets. We built MoveArt for all of them.
If none of these describe you, that’s ok — our free valuation is a no-cost way to find out whether your piece has the kind of market that justifies an outreach campaign at all.
The single biggest reason art doesn’t sell is not quality — it’s that the right buyers never see it. Every gallery has a focus. Every collector has a narrow taste. The painting that won’t move on Saatchi will sometimes sell in a week if you can put it in front of the three people on earth who collect that exact movement.
That’s the entire MoveArt thesis. The work is finding those people and writing each of them an email that reads like it took an hour to write — because it did.
For every campaign, our AI does four things in order:
What we do not do: take a commission, lock you into representation, charge listing fees, or guarantee a sale. The campaign is a flat fee, paid up front, and the buyer relationship after the introduction belongs entirely to you.
Start with a free valuation. We research the artist, the medium, comparable sales, and current demand — then tell you honestly whether a campaign makes sense. No card required.
Get My Free Valuation →Three tiers, three price points, all flat-fee. The right one depends on the value of your piece, how broad you want the outreach, and how much follow-up you need.
AI research and a written valuation, plus 25 individually personalized buyer emails to a tightly targeted list. Best for emerging artists and pieces under $1,000 where the per-piece economics need to make sense.
Deeper market research and 60-100 personalized buyer emails to galleries, private collectors, and art advisors worldwide. Our most-used tier. Best for pieces in the $1,000-$15,000 range.
Comprehensive research, 150+ individually personalized emails, and a structured 7-day and 21-day follow-up sequence. Best for high-value pieces, estate collections, and works that need international reach.
If during research we determine your piece has limited market viability, we tell you before any outreach goes out and refund in full. We’d rather lose the $149 than send 100 emails about a piece we don’t believe in — that’s how our deliverability stays high.
Honest expectations, written down so we can’t move the goalposts later.
We will not promise a sale. We will not promise a specific price. We will not promise that any individual buyer responds. The market decides those things, not us. What we control — and what we will deliver in writing — is the research quality, the buyer-list relevance, the personalization on every email, the deliverability, and an honest market read after the campaign closes.
These are the eight questions we hear most. Honest answers below.
The honest answer: most art doesn’t sell because the right buyers never see it, not because it isn’t good. You have three real paths. First, list it on a marketplace like Saatchi or Artsy and hope a buyer finds you (slow, low conversion). Second, hire a gallery and surrender 40-50% commission for 12+ months of representation. Third, hire someone to actively research and contact buyers who already collect work like yours. MoveArt is the third path productized: we research your piece, build a targeted buyer list, and send 25-150+ individually personalized emails on your behalf, starting at $79.
Saatchi Art, Artsy, Artfinder, Singulart, 1stDibs, eBay, Etsy, and your own Shopify or Squarespace site are the main online options. Each has tradeoffs: Saatchi reaches a broad audience but takes 30-40%; Artsy is gallery-only; 1stDibs is high-end and selective; eBay is fast but signals low value. Listing alone rarely sells a painting because buyers don’t browse the way sellers hope. The pieces that sell online almost always have someone actively pushing them in front of the right collector. That outbound work is exactly what MoveArt does.
Step one is figure out what you have. We see executors and heirs constantly under-value pieces (a signed lithograph mistaken for a poster) or over-value them (a print misidentified as an original). Get a written valuation before you do anything else — our free valuation form is a good starting point. Step two: decide between a quick exit (auction house, often 25-35% in fees plus a 6-12 month wait) or a targeted sale (research the right collectors and reach out individually). For inherited collections of 5+ pieces, MoveArt’s per-piece economics work well because the buyer-research overhead amortizes across the lot.
Three flat-fee tiers. Starter is $79 — AI research, written valuation, and 25 individually personalized buyer emails. Standard is $149 — deeper research and 60-100 emails to galleries, collectors, and advisors. Premium is $349 — comprehensive research, 150+ emails, plus follow-up sequences. There is no commission, no percentage of the sale, no listing fee. You keep 100% of whatever you ultimately sell for. If our research determines your piece has limited market viability, we tell you before sending anything and refund in full.
Often, yes — because Saatchi is a passive marketplace and we are an active outbound process. A piece that’s sat unsold on Saatchi for 18 months usually isn’t bad art; it just hasn’t been put in front of the specific collector who wants it. We approach it differently: we identify 50-150 galleries and collectors who already buy similar work and email each of them individually with a pitch tailored to their collection. That said, we won’t take your money if the research shows no real market. If you’ve been listed for years with no interest at any price, we’ll tell you before launching.
We can’t guarantee a sale — anyone who guarantees one is lying. Final transactions depend on price, timing, and the buyer’s appetite that month. What we do guarantee: the research quality, the email volume, the personalization (every email references the recipient’s actual collection focus), and tracked delivery. If a campaign closes without a sale, we share the full response data — who opened, who replied, what objections came up — so you can adjust price or re-run with a different angle. Many sales close 30-90 days after the campaign ends, when a buyer’s budget cycle aligns.
Research and valuation arrive within 24 hours of submission. Buyer list and email drafts within 48-72 hours. The outreach campaign sends over 5-10 days depending on tier. Responses typically arrive in waves — most within the first 2 weeks, with a long tail through 60-90 days. Actual sale close, when it happens, ranges from same-week (rare, usually for hot artists) to 4-8 weeks (typical, for negotiated sales) to 6+ months (estate-grade pieces that need the right collector at the right moment). Plan on 30-90 days for the realistic full cycle.
It depends on what you actually need. A traditional art consultant is great if you have a $100K+ collection that needs strategy, appraisal, gallery relationships, and white-glove handling — they’ll charge $5,000-$25,000+ for that and deliver real value. MoveArt is better if you have one to ten pieces in the $500-$50,000 range and you mostly need someone to do the targeted-buyer-research and outreach work that consultants charge $200-$400/hour for. Our Premium tier ($349) does in three days what a consultant typically bills 30-50 hours to do. For high-end estate work, hire both: us for outreach, a consultant for negotiation.
Note on “help me move my art”: MoveArt is not a physical relocation, shipping, or crating service. If you need fine-art shipping or freight, our art shipping guide covers the right vendors and packaging standards. We focus exclusively on finding the right buyers for your work — not moving it from point A to point B.
Submit your piece below and we’ll research it, build a targeted buyer list, and write personalized outreach emails on your behalf. Campaigns start at $79. If we can’t make a credible market case for your piece, we’ll tell you before charging anything.
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