TITLE 28

COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS

CHAPTER 11

ARTISTS AND ART DEALERS

PART 1.

ARTIST AND ART DEALER

28-11-102.  Artist-art dealer relationship. Notwithstanding any custom, practice or usage of the trade to the contrary, whenever an artist delivers or causes to be delivered a work of fine art of the artist’s own creation to an art dealer in this state for the purpose of exhibition and sale on a commission, fee, or other basis of compensation, the delivery to and acceptance of the work of fine art by the art dealer constitutes a consignment, unless the delivery to the art dealer is pursuant to an outright sale for which the artist receives upon delivery or has received prior to delivery full compensation for the work of fine art.

History:

[28-11-102, added 1987, ch. 127, sec. 1, p. 258.]