Used paintings in Perth, Western Australia typically sell for A$38 to A$575 (about $27 to $405). A painting is worth what can be established about who made it, so photograph the signature, the reverse and the stretcher — and never clean or revarnish it before selling.
Selling paintings in Perth
Perth is one of the most isolated large cities in the world, and that isolation is the single most useful thing to know about buying here. Freight from the east coast is slow and expensive, so the local second-hand market is deeper and better-valued than the population alone would suggest.
The resources industry brings people in on contracts and takes them out again, and a worker leaving at the end of a contract usually sells a whole household rather than shipping it. Those clear-outs are where the best-value listings come from.
Almost everything is collected by car and the city is built for it, so distance matters less here than in the eastern capitals. The coastal suburbs run a long way north and south, and it is worth naming a suburb rather than saying Perth.
Perth, in Western Australia, has around 2.1 million people, which means a deep enough buyer pool that most things sell without having to travel far to hand them over. Bunbury, Geraldton and Busselton are close enough that a buyer there may well make the trip for the right thing.
Handing it over in Perth
Australia is a pre-launch market, so it is worth saying what a seller here should expect when it does open. Distance dominates everything: interstate parcels cost several times a metro delivery, and bulky items effectively only sell within a city. Most trade concentrates in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, and buyers in those cities expect to collect rather than wait. Seasons run opposite to the northern hemisphere, so listings that follow UK or US timing arrive exactly half a year out of step — warm weather items want September, not March, and winter gear moves from around May.
What paintings are worth
What lifts the price
- Signed original works with documented provenance
- Original frames appropriate to the period
What pulls it down
- Prints and reproductions mistaken for originals
- Water staining and foxing on works on paper
Working out what yours is worth
- Look closely at the surface — prints show dot patterns under magnification
- Search auction results for the artist’s name
Getting it ready
- Photograph the reverse before anything else. Labels, stamps, inscriptions and gallery marks on the back are often where attribution comes from.
- Look for a signature and any date, including in the corners and along the edges under the frame rebate.
Photograph
- The signature close up, legible
- The surface raked with side light to show texture, craquelure, and any damage or repair
Put in the description
- Dimensions of the work, and separately with the frame
- Condition of the surface and support, including craquelure, tears, flaking or previous restoration
Steady year round to a collector and decorator audience. Signed work by identifiable artists sells fastest; unattributed decorative paintings compete on subject, size and frame.
Listing is free and there is no selling fee, so the whole amount the buyer pays stays with you. You and the buyer agree the handover between yourselves.
Same region (Western Australia)
Common questions
Where can I sell paintings in Perth?
List it free and agree the handover with the buyer between you. Almost everything is collected by car and the city is built for it, so distance matters less here than in the eastern capitals. The coastal suburbs run a long way north and south, and it is worth naming a suburb rather than saying Perth.
Is it oil or a print?
Look at the surface at an angle in raking light. Real brushwork casts shadows; a print is flat even when textured varnish has been applied over it. Photograph it that way and the buyer can see for themselves.
How much are paintings worth in Perth?
Most used paintings change hands for A$38 to A$575 (about $27 to $405). Condition and completeness move that figure more than anything else.
More: selling paintings across Australia, what paintings are worth, everything second hand in Perth, or Art & Collectables in Perth.
Guide range converted from sterling at the 2 August 2026 rate, not a quote — sellers set their own price.