in your area and should you get into a grudge with your

current art dealer you may have to travel quite far or have

your artwork shipped to you from other states depending on

how and where the next authorized dealer is located.

If the art dealer, instead of describing to you why this

artist is important, telling you about the techniques, telling

you about the artist and his or her background, starts going

into a long lecture on the investment and appreciation

values of this artist, run for the hills. Especially if the art

dealers tells you, "Oh in 5 years this artwork is going to

be X amount of dollars", this person is lying to you. And

they're only interest in you is in trying to sell you as many

pieces as you are willing to buy.

The unscrupulous art dealer will not care what the

client likes, what are the real values of an artist or how their

shady practices damage the industry as a whole.