10/09/2026
We all know to look at the front of an artwork. But the back can tell us just as much.
The verso can hold important clues about an artist, an artwork, and the life it has lived: gallery and exhibition labels, inscriptions, stamps, inventory numbers, framing notes, and other marks accumulated over time. Together, these details can become an important record of a work’s history and provenance.
At DDG, we document the verso of every artwork that comes through the shop. Before framing, we scan the back of the work and preserve a copy on the reverse of the finished frame, along with any original gallery, exhibition, or collection labels.
The front may be what we came to see, but the back is part of the artwork’s history, too.