Tate Images
This service is for you if you are a commercial picture library user and want to reproduce a Tate work in any format. If you are an individual simply requiring a one-off copy of a Tate work for reference, study or simply to hang on your wall, please see Tate Images - Print services.
Tate Images Online
Tate Images offers a quick and efficient online service for professional image users. The Tate Collection is easily and instantly accessible, enabling you to:
- Access imagery twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week
- Browse the entire Tate Collection using a keyword based search engine
- Select images and save selections to a personal light box
- Obtain online quotes for the use of images
- Download low-resolution imagery for layout purposes
- Purchase and download high-resolution images
We hope you will find our website easy and intuitive to use but please do not hesitate to contact us if we can help you find the perfect picture. We have an in-depth knowledge of the Tate Collection, and can either point you in the right direction or, if you prefer, can select images for you.
Many of our images are available at high-resolution and can be downloaded for immediate use. Where these are not available we will have them scanned for you within a maximum five working days of receiving your order.
Tate Images - Licensing Services
If you would prefer not to order images and rights through our online service go to our Licence for Reproduction form - you can then print it off and send the completed form to us by fax or post.
Tate Images can also supply colour transparencies for reproduction purposes. Colour transparencies are available for hire on payment of a fee. If no Master Transparency exists then an additional, non-refundable, photography fee will be charged.
Copyright
Tate Images is a specialist art collection and a number of our works are still in copyright, since an artwork remains the intellectual property of the artist or the artist's estate for seventy years after the artist's death. This means permission to use the artwork must be obtained from the copyright owner as well as from Tate, and that an additional fee may be charged. It is the client's responsibility to obtain permission before a reproduction of any work or content is made: if permission is not obtained you will be infringing copyright.
Further information on Tate copyright policy
Terms and Conditions
Our Terms and Conditions set out the basis of our working relationship with you and you will be asked to agree to them prior to purchasing images from us. It is important that you read and understand these before proceeding with your licence request. View our terms and conditions here:
- Analogue image reproduction and supply - terms & conditions (PDF format 72K)
- Digital image reproduction and supply - terms & conditions (PDF format 72K)
PDF Files can be opened with free Adobe Reader software
Contact us
Tate Images friendly and experienced staff will be happy to help you find images that are right for you, to order high-resolution scans and/or reproduction prints, and to advise on fees and copyright clearance. Please contact us at:
Tate Images
Tate Enterprises Ltd.
The Lodge
Millbank
London
SW1P 4RG
Email: picture.library@tate.org.uk
Call: +44 (0)20 7887 8871/4933
Fax: +44 (0)20 7887 8805
Our office is open from 0900-1800 hrs Monday to Friday
Tate Agencies
Tate Images works in association with Art Resource who also hold and license artworks from the Tate collection. This is the only official source of Tate artworks in the USA.
Customers in North America may obtain Tate pictures from:
Art Resource
536 Broadway, 5th floor
New York, NY 10012
Email: requests@artres.com
Call: (212) 505 8700
Fax: (212) 505 2053