Connecticut's Premier
Fine Art Auction House

Client: This Fine Art Auction House specializes in American and European 19th and early 20th century paintings. The firm is aggressively positioned to compete with New York auction houses in the under $250,000 art market.

Background: This client came to us via
recommendation from a well-known New York Auction Firm. They were looking for a facility to manage their entire print production process from photography, database management, and layout through to the binding and mailing of their catalog.

Solution: They chose Cosmos based on our reputation as the leader in meeting the promotional needs of the fine arts community. Digital photography was proposed as a time and cost saving solution. A remote digital photography studio was set-up with on-site proofing, where color corrections, and approval were completed simultaneously. We shot over 80 works of art per day, over a 3-day period, for a total of 240+ shots. Once the photography and prepress processes were complete, the catalog was printed and perfect bound. While all of this was going on, mailing lists were perfected and delivered, labels were designed and output, and finally, the book was priority shipped to over 2000 potential clients right on time.

The beauty of digital photography is that the images can be reused for additional
promotional material, viewing via the web, or output either as posters or smaller prints and postcards.

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