[biztos]

I don’t think you actually can. I’m talking about collusion — I sell you the artwork for $X on the contract, but you also give me $Y for it in cash. Artist gets commission off $X, and nothing from $Y. And because it’s not an Actual Contract I haven’t broken the law.

Do you have a solution to that?

[bookmarkable]

I'm not sure this is a real problem. If you gave a Christie's rep $10M for a modern art piece, and gave them another $1M cash and said "this is off the books" I'm sure they could write down the sale was really only $10M. But why would you do that? You are paying extra to shaft the artist of royalties? To devalue work you just purchased? What is the benefit in this transaction?