Benefits of Selling With GWPA

1. The Highest Prices

Grev Wedels Plass Auksjoner operates in the high-end market and achieves record prices for several artists every year.

GWPA always orients itself toward the best of modern and older Norwegian art. This has led to fantastic auctions, countless auction records for individual artists, and for more than 30 years we have, in most years, been able to look back on the highest prices in the Norwegian market.

2. The Highest Quality

GWPA is unique in being a niche auction house specialising in our most well-known modern and older artists from the early 1800s up to our own time.

The works accepted into our auctions are carefully selected and usually have a minimum valuation of NOK 50,000. We know most of our customers and understand what they are looking for. This guides how we curate and market our biannual main sales.
If there is a need to sell art and antiques in different price ranges, it may be beneficial to let GWPA assess how the best prices can be achieved. This may involve GWPA taking on some works for sale and referring others elsewhere. GWPA can handle everything, from valuable individual pieces to entire estates if they include significant art.

We are constantly seeking high-quality works and have listed sought-after artists as a guide for potential sellers here.

3. Specialists

Grev Wedels Plass Auksjoner has a small, professional staff with more than 30 years of industry experience, solid expertise in art as well as marketing. Emphasis is placed on high quality at every level, personal service, and low costs for the clients. We undertake extensive travel domestically and internationally for art evaluations, and have a large Norwegian and international network of contacts, both buyers and sellers.

4. Tailored Marketing – Personal Service – Enthusiasm

A successful art sale requires contact with the right buyers and modern, professional marketing. After more than 30 years of specialised operations, and with so many convincing results, our auctions are well known among all those interested in the highest quality of Norwegian modern and older art.

We arrange individual marketing plans for every single object we take on for sale, and emphasize personal follow-up for all sellers from the first contact until the sale is completed and the settlement is in the account.

Enthusiasm for each individual artwork and every single sales assignment is an important guiding principle for us. Therefore, the goal is not to sell as many artworks as possible, but that what we sell should be of the highest possible quality and that our sales efforts should match that. The commission fee is agreed upon once the marketing plan has been determined.

5. Low Costs for the Seller. No Cure, No Pay.

What interests the seller is what they are left with after the artwork is sold. We believe that the seller’s costs should be reasonable and proportionate to our sales effort and the result.

Our goal for our sellers is therefore good results and low costs — and, “no cure, no pay.”