Security considerations when consignment stock piles up

Diagram of layered security around an artwork: perimeter, building shell, interior zone, display or store, and the object

A Flinders Lane dealer rang me in March with what she thought was a good problem. Three estates had come to her at once, all wanting to consign through her gallery before a spring auction cycle, and suddenly she had 40 more works on her walls and in her back room than she’d budgeted floor […]