Sales Office
The Gallerist's Sales Office: sign contracts and sell Works of Art — the contract display, ticket slots, selling steps and flipping a fulfilled contract.
You need a contract of the right art form to sell a work. Contracts also give bonuses.
Sign a contract
Take one face-up contract from the display and put it on your player board.
- Before choosing, you may draw 4 new contracts and lay them over the four current ones, left to right. You may then take none, though it is rarely wise. Only the top card of each stack can be taken.
- Place the contract on an empty contract slot — and take the ticket printed on that slot from the box office — or over a fulfilled (face-down) contract. The covered contract goes face up on the discard pile and any Assistant on it goes home; you do not get the slot’s ticket again.
- With three unfulfilled (face-up) contracts, you cannot sign another.
- If a display space is empty after your action, refill it from the deck.
- Empty deck: shuffle the discards with every contract in the display into a new deck and deal 4 new contracts.
Your three contract slots give a brown ticket, a pink ticket and a ticket of any colour.
Sell a Work of Art
With a face-up contract and a work of the same art form in your Gallery:
- Take money equal to the work’s Signature token on your Art value track.
- Remove a work of that form from your Gallery, put it beside your player board (it still counts as acquired) and slide the other works left.
- Return the Signature token next to its Artist.
- Move one Visitor of your choice from your Gallery to the Plaza, if you have any.
- Flip the contract face down and turn it so the bonus on top matches the Visitor you moved: Influence for a VIP, money for an Investor. Moved a Collector, or nobody: choose.
- Any Assistant on the contract goes home.
The flipped contract’s bonus is not taken now: use an Executive action later. Each sale fulfils one contract, of your choice.
Contract bonuses
Each contract shows its art form and one of five bonuses (the first is money on photography and painting contracts, Influence on digital art and sculpture ones):
| Bonus | Effect |
|---|---|
 | 2 money per Investor and 1 per Collector in your Gallery |
 | 2 Influence per VIP and 1 per Collector in your Gallery |
| Assistant with a 0 | Hire the top Assistant of your unemployment queue for free (with its hiring bonus) |
| Take a Sign a contract action |
| Visitor over the bag | Choose any Visitor from the bag and put it in your Gallery (Collectors limit applies) |
| Brown and pink Visitor | Move a VIP or Investor from the Plaza to your Gallery; none there: choose one from the bag |
The back of every contract shows Influence at one end and money at the other, both counted from Visitors in your Gallery.