How do you sell a painting?

[12345]

I have been gifted a painting that basically no one in the family wants. Dad told me if I liked it I could have it, if not, sell it. I don't know if I have the provenance or not, but it does have a stamp on the canvas and a signature. The shipping address says Cayman Islands and I'm told it's worth "Some money." My aunt bought it and left it with her parents and then there was a falling out and they haven't talked for years. Grandmother had to move and like I said earlier no one else wanted it.

So, how can I legally sell a painting because I have no clue. It came rolled up in a tube with some wood attached to the outside.

(This is actually a serious question, but thinking about it I figured this was the best place for a question like this.)

 

[12345]

What does the stamp say, and can you make out the signature? Do a quick Google search on them. Odds are, it's not really going to be worth much. Unless the stamp/signature lead you to other pieces being sold for real money, you'll probably just want to ebay it.

Didn't really look just noticed one. The signature starts with a D. Can't make out much more. I would need to unroll it again to see.

You can’t just blue-ball all of us like that, what’s it a painting of?

It's pretty ugly. As far as I can tell it's just blobs of paint tossed that the canvas. It looks like something I would make, if I painted. Which I don't. I'll try and take a picture of it later.

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

Examine materials used to make it. If handmade, Sell on Etsy. Some middleaged white woman will buy it. If massproduced, sell on Ebay. Some stoner will buy it thinking it has value. Even if it doesnt sell immediately, selling things on these sites which aren't popular is a matter of when not if.

 

[12345]

Examine materials used to make it. If handmade, Sell on Etsy. Some middleaged white woman will buy it. If massproduced, sell on Ebay. Some stoner will buy it thinking it has value. Even if it doesnt sell immediately, selling things on these sites which aren't popular is a matter of when not if.

Oh this wasn't mass produced. If I ever need a blanket I have one. It covered my queen sized bed, unrolled.

I was honestly thinking less eBay or Etsy and more a gallery or something. When I say some money I mean the Aunt met up with a very rich guy, bought the painting and then cut all contact off with the family. That's why I mentioned provenance (Thank you early Supernatural). It's not something she picked up at a value Village or something.

 

[Naes]

Oh this wasn't mass produced. If I ever need a blanket I have one. It covered my queen sized bed, unrolled.

I was honestly thinking less eBay or Etsy and more a gallery or something. When I say some money I mean the Aunt met up with a very rich guy, bought the painting and then cut all contact off with the family. That's why I mentioned provenance (Thank you early Supernatural). It's not something she picked up at a value Village or something.

Post it here?
Who painted it?

 

[Ultrapenguin]

I don't know if it's a good idea taking a picture and posting it here.

You go to a gallery somewhere, they say "Hey this is a fairly valuable painting, we'll auction it", they're potentially going to put it up online and then someone finds that listing and they're going to know who you are, or at least where you are. That would be a lunatic level of dedication, but...well, you've seen the kind of lunatics after the site and its userbase right now.

Examine materials used to make it. If handmade, Sell on Etsy. Some middleaged white woman will buy it. If massproduced, sell on Ebay. Some stoner will buy it thinking it has value. Even if it doesnt sell immediately, selling things on these sites which aren't popular is a matter of when not if.

Well yeah, that's true, but the question becomes if you're willing to deal with weeks on end of headache watching the listing, answering non-commital weirdos, then dealing with packing/shipping for like $30 worth of profit after you factor in cost of shipping for an item that isn't really in demand. At some point I figure there are less headache inducing ways of making that money as an able bodied individual.

Plus you only get so many re-lists for free. I guess it depends on your level of tolerance.

 

[Space_Dandy]

Ebay or Offerup. Even Marketplace on Boomerbook is an option.