For several years, or several months, the artist has been producing work. Some is hidden before anyone sees it. It does not even get considered for the final selection. The rest are placed throughout the studio to be studied.
What naturally goes together?
Which ones will someone want to buy because of x, y, z?
Which ones have already been sold and so need others to offer like work?
Which ones are reminiscent of previous work?
Which ones are suggestive of work to come?
How do they go together again?
And if it is done once by the artist, it will be done again by the gallerist, possibly by the gallery, and likely when the show is hung for good measure. The process edits cruelly because each painting was produced at some point with care, and then it gets dismissed, rejected possibly simply for its suitability.
Unless you are one of the required selectors-avoid this time assiduously.
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