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Pieces released by their first collectors, by estates, and from the represented roster — placed with full chain-of-custody documentation. Same standard as the primary collection. Different origin path.
A collector moves to a smaller house. An estate is settling. A primary market goes quiet around an artist whose work the gallery still believes in. Sometimes a work simply finishes its time with one collector and is ready for the next.
When that happens, the piece has gained something it didn't have on its first sale: a documented life. It has been chosen, hung, lived with, considered. It carries the gallery's eye, the original purchase record, the years that followed. That documentation is the asset.
The Provenance Collection is the gallery's program for stewarding these works — sourcing them with the same selection standard as the primary collection, and placing them with full chain-of-custody intact.
Bring us the piece, the documentation you have, and what you'd like to see happen with it. We assess current market context, condition, and fit. If the work suits the program, we take it on consignment, conduct the diligence, and place it.
Works originally placed by JG retain priority for resale through the gallery — we know the artist's market, the condition history, and a buyer for the piece. Standard commission applies.
The Provenance Collection is not browseable. The works are placed by inquiry. Tell us what you collect — artist, period, scale, the company you want it to keep — and we draw from current consignments, estate work in process, and pieces being prepared for release.
You hear about a piece because it suits you, not because we are publishing inventory. The relationship runs in time.
Works by artists with substantive exhibition records and a documented market.
Pieces in excellent condition with the chain of ownership documented from the artist's studio forward.
Work that aligns with the gallery's roster — contemporary, technique-forward, with a Pacific Northwest sensibility.
Pieces by artists whose primary market is no longer active, where the gallery can continue the artist's placement with the right collectors.
Major works by artists JG represents, returning to the gallery from their original collectors after years in private hands.
Every piece reviewed in person. Condition reports prepared and shared with the next collector. Restorations and conservation noted in writing.
The collector reaches the gallery directly. We review documentation, photographs, and the work in person where possible. We discuss valuation, timing, and the path forward — typically inside a week.
If the work suits the program, the gallery takes it on consignment with full provenance documentation, condition report, and high-resolution archival photography. The work is conditioned for placement and entered into the gallery's permanent record.
The piece is offered through the gallery's network — the collector portal, prior buyers of the artist, and the curated list of those who collect in adjacent territory. Quietly. To the right person. The full chain of custody transfers with the work.
The collection runs in two directions. Works move through the gallery on their way to a new home — and works arrive in collectors' homes through their own paths, inherited, given, found, acquired years ago at another gallery, abroad, at auction. The provenance is uneven. The documentation is incomplete. The collector wants to know what they have.
The Provenance Service is the gallery's research practice for those works. We do the attribution research, document the chain of custody as far as records will carry, and issue a signed file with a sourced market range. Each file is cryptographically anchored at issue. The collector keeps the work. The record stays with it.
A quick read on a single work.
For living artists with a public market record, when the goal is is this worth selling, and roughly for how much.
A working file on a single work.
For works with an established market where the collector wants a thorough file. Most works above $2,000 declared value fall here.
Deeper research where the trail is harder.
For deceased or harder-to-trace artists.
Complex cases.
For high-value works, contested attribution, or restoration questions.
For when there's more than one.
Three Express-tier files, processed together, filed under a single ticket family for documentation continuity. Effective rate $83 per work. Useful for an inherited group or a collection being thinned.
A decline option, by design.
Where the images cannot support a credible file — and we've seen the case — we say so, return your fee, and explain what the work would need before we could. Authority compounds with willingness to say no.
A short form, your images, your context. We confirm a ticket number on receipt and respond within one business day on path forward and timing.
The Provenance Service is research, not authentication. We do attribution research, document chain of custody as far as records will carry, and issue a signed file with a sourced market range. What we deliver is an attribution opinion based on the documentation supplied — not a guarantee of authenticity, and not a substitute for in-person examination by a credentialed authenticator or USPAP-licensed appraiser.
The market range we cite is an indicated market range based on comparable sales in the public auction record. It is not an appraisal in the regulated sense of that word. Where a USPAP-certified appraisal is required — for IRS donation, insurance scheduling, divorce or estate valuation — we will tell you, and refer you to an independent appraiser.
Each file is signed, dated, cryptographically anchored, and delivered with the sources we relied on so you can verify the work yourself. The file is the record of our research. Buyers, sellers, and anyone relying on it are expected to conduct their own independent due diligence before acting on it.
What we will not opine on. Works claimed to be by living artists without that artist's confirmation. Works subject to an active artist-estate authentication committee. Works with a reasonable indication of theft or active title dispute. Where one of these conditions surfaces during research, we stop, return your fee, and tell you why.
Limitation of liability. JG Art Gallery's liability for any claim arising from a Provenance file is limited to the fee paid for that file. By submitting a work for research, you grant JG a limited license to the images for the purpose of executing the service, and warrant that you have the right to share those images. Disputes governed by Washington state law; venue Kitsap County, WA. Full terms confirmed at the time of intake.
The list isn't published. Tell us what you're holding, or what you're looking for, and we'll respond within one business day.