Glossary

Tearsheet

A one-page presentation of a single work — image, details, price — sent to a prospective buyer.

Named for pages once torn from catalogs, a tearsheet is the unit of art-market correspondence: one work, one image, the facts (artist, title, year, medium, dimensions, edition, price), sometimes provenance and literature.

Because tearsheets are assembled from inventory data, they're a test of record hygiene — a gallery with clean records produces one in seconds, on brand, without retyping dimensions from a wall label.

In the product: Inventory. Related: Online viewing room · Provenance