The contracts toolkit

• The contract checklists
• Gallery, Dealer, Agent checklist
• Licensing reproductions checklist
• Commissions checklist
• 1 Using the Commissions checklist
• 2 The parties
• 3 The commission
• 4 Preliminary designs
• 5 Acceptance and completion of work
• 6 Delivery of the work
• 7 Installation of the work
• 8 Fees
• 9 Ownership
• 10 Insurance
• 11 Warranties and repairs
• 12 Maintenance
• 13 Relocation and deterioration
• 14 Copyright and reproduction rights
• 15 Credits and moral rights
• 16 Changing the agreement
• 17 Governing law
• 18 Disputes
• 19 Termination
• 20 Signatures
• 21 The lot

Commissions checklist

1 Using the Commissions checklist

The following checklist covers many of the issues relevant to small-scale private and public art commissions.

The checklist takes the form of a series of subject headings below which are a number of questions to consider. Further explanation of the issues relating to each question can be opened and closed by clicking the icons.

No two commissions are ever the same and given the growing financial value and complexity of many public art commissions, a specially designed contract will be needed in most cases.