Zurich / Galleries, art shops & framers
Between Swiss furniture-store “handgemalt” decor and signed originals in Zurich’s old town, a canvas painted to your size and subject can hold its own price.
This page is for two kinds of Zurich shop. One is the gallery or art shop weighing whether to buy canvases outright instead of taking work on consignment. The other is the framer whose walk-in customers ask for a painting, not only a frame.
PaletteMomento is a hand-painting studio in Dafen Art Village, Shenzhen, China, supplying trade buyers worldwide. One painter paints each canvas directly on premium linen, with no printed base. Orders start at one painting, so a framer can order a canvas for a single customer. Each format on your price list gets its own line in our quote. You approve daylight photos of every finished canvas, and only then does it ship.
Our fastest way to discuss your formats and price. The written quote follows by email for your records.
WhatsApp: usually an immediate reply.
Email: usually within 12 hours. Monday–Sunday.
support@palettemomento.comOr send your formats and references through our quote form.
01 / Choose the tier
Before you order, decide which tier a studio canvas will hold on your wall. Shoppers in Zurich see hand-painted work at very different prices. Some of it sits in furniture stores, and some hangs in old-town galleries with an artist’s name beside it. Here is how that ladder looked in September 2026, grouped by kind of seller. Sizes differ, so compare rungs at the size you plan to sell.
Example listings seen in September 2026, from furniture-store decor up to signed originals. The rung marked “Your studio canvas” is where custom studio work can sit.
At the same size, a canvas painted to your size and subject belongs above furniture decor and clearly below signed originals. Small generic designs would compete with CHF 99.90 decor, so custom subjects and exact sizes are where studio stock earns its place.
02 / Buy or consign
Swiss financial press described gallery consignment in January 2024 as typically about a 50/50 split with the artist. On consignment, you pay the artist only after a piece sells. Buying studio canvases outright turns that around. You keep the whole margin, and you also hold the stock whether it sells or not.
Many artists and galleries price by size with a simple formula, so a price list by size already feels familiar to art buyers. One Zurich gallery lets buyers browse by size band: up to 60 cm, up to 120 cm, up to 150 cm, and larger. We suggest a few fixed formats in each band you stock. Give each one a single price, worked out from its full landed cost as in the example.
03 / Add the counter commission
Zurich has well-stocked local framers, and one offers around 1,000 frame styles. That puts a framer in a good spot to sell the painting as well as the frame. A customer brings a photo, chooses a frame at your counter, and later collects a hand-painted canvas framed by you. Galleries can offer the same service, and at least one Zurich gallery already takes commissions in a size, subject or color the client chooses.
Your customer can compare prices online. A Zurich painter who takes commissions from customer photos publishes price ranges from past jobs. They run roughly CHF 700 to 1,200 for 50 × 70 cm, and CHF 1,000 to 1,800 for 70 × 100 cm. One Germany-based painter selling to Swiss buyers lists about CHF 1,790 for 50 × 70 cm and CHF 2,490 for 70 × 100 cm, framed. You set your retail price with those figures in view, and the framing stays part of your sale.
Our photo-to-painting page shows the kinds of photos we paint, from family portraits to pets and places.
We paint from the customer’s photo to the visible size of the frame opening, as our page for framers and frame shops explains. One painter works on the canvas from the first sketch to the last marks, as our painting process shows. Before it ships, you receive daylight photos of the finished painting. Show them to the customer at your counter, and send us their notes before you approve it.
04 / Set the gift prices
Zurich Tourism lists the 2026 Christmas markets at the main station, the old-town “Dörfli”, Münsterhof and Europaallee. All four open on 19 November and run until 23 or 24 December.
Small originals at a fixed price have also lost their Swiss fair. The Kunstsupermarkt in Solothurn sold originals at CHF 99, 199, 399 or 599, and it ended in January 2025. Its organizer says there is no Kunstsupermarkt in Switzerland in 2026, though its online shop still sells to Swiss buyers.
We suggest subjects your shop is known for, so a gift buyer can decide at a glance and the pieces do not read as CHF 99.90 decor. Choose two or three price points, then ask us to quote the sizes you have in mind for each. Keep the sizes whose full landed cost still leaves your margin at that price.
You pick the sizes, and we paint the width and height you set for each design. At least one large Zurich art-supply counter sends stretching and framing to its workshop outside the city, so it is worth asking your framer how long that step takes.
Two subjects from our catalog, shown for style. For your gift wall, pick subjects that set your shop apart from furniture-store decor.
05 / Your list for us
The tier is your own pricing decision, and it tells you which formats and sizes to ask us to quote. A framer ordering for one counter customer can leave the tier out and give us the frame’s visible opening instead. Your hang date, or the customer’s date, tells us when the canvas has to reach Zurich.
What your customers expect
They can, but rental suits higher prices: one Zurich gallery charges 8% of the sale price a month for one month, with a CHF 150 minimum. Below about CHF 1,900, that minimum is more than 8% of the price each month. On a twelve-month term, the rate is 3% a month and the same point is CHF 5,000. Both prices sit above the middle tier on this page, so a rental pool suits your larger, higher-priced works better than studio stock. That gallery credits 75% of the rent paid if the renter buys, and swaps works every three to six months on request. Our guide to art rental collections explains how to plan a pool.
Yes, and one Zurich gallery already lets buyers browse its works by where they will hang, such as over a sofa, a bed or a fireplace. You can brief our canvases the same way. Tell us the wall position and the width you want, and we paint the width and height you choose. You can then keep a format for each position, such as one for over a sofa, with its own price on your list.
A Zurich shop can offer what an online seller cannot: viewing in person and a frame chosen at the counter, with the size agreed face to face. One large online seller gives Swiss buyers 100 days to return a canvas. A made-to-size piece works differently, because the client agrees its size, subject and frame with you before it is painted.
At least one Zurich old-town gallery sells its canvases ready to hang unless it says otherwise, so your buyers may expect the same. If you sell studio canvases that way, order them stretched or framed, or have them stretched or framed locally before they go on sale. A buyer who wants a particular frame can still choose one at a Zurich framing counter.
Yes: a photo that a Zurich customer leaves at your counter stays private by default, like every design you send us. We suggest keeping the customer’s name off the photo file you send. If someone else took the photo, such as a wedding photographer, please ask the customer to check that they may use it.
From the price list or the counter
A Zurich framer can send the customer’s photo and the frame’s visible opening on WhatsApp before the customer leaves. If we spot a problem, such as a cropped face, they may still be there to send a better file. A gallery can send the formats it plans for each tier and the day they have to hang.
Our fastest way to discuss your formats and price. The written quote follows by email for your records.
WhatsApp: usually an immediate reply.
Email: usually within 12 hours. Monday–Sunday.
support@palettemomento.comOr send your formats and references through our quote form.