Free tools for artists
Art price calculator
Work out a price from the size of a piece or the time and materials in it, then see what a buyer pays and what you keep once a gallery's commission and GST are counted.
Your price
Example — change any figurePrice to ask
$1,750
The buyer pays $0.50 per sq cm, rounded up to a clean price.
- You keep$1,050
- Gallery commission$700
The same rate on other sizes
- 30×40$600
- 40×50$1,000
- 50×70$1,750
- 60×90$2,700
- 90×120$5,400
Good to know
Price by size, consistently
A rate per square centimetre or inch keeps a small piece and a large one in proportion, so collectors can see your prices make sense. Raise the rate as your work sells, not piece by piece.
Commission comes off the price without GST
NAVA's Code of Practice puts commercial galleries at 40–50%, regional galleries at 25–33% and artist-run spaces at 10–30%, taken from the price before GST. Agree it in writing.
Same price everywhere
Ask the same price in your studio as the gallery does. Undercutting a gallery that shows your work is the quickest way to lose it.
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- Frame and mat calculatorMat window, board, glass and frame sizes, and how much moulding to buy.
ArtFlow, free to join
Keep every price, and every split, in one place
ArtFlow keeps the retail price, what you earn and the gallery's commission apart on every artwork, and works a price out forwards or backwards for you.