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Originally Posted by Eric Coffey
They are all prints. If it's not an original work, it's a print. The only differences being the print method/medium/substrate.
The most common:
Lithograph (offset plates).
Serigraph (silkscreen).
Giclée (ink-jet).
Intaglio (etching).
As mentioned above, not all are (hand) signed by the artist either.
Also, the "official" editions are typically numbered, but there are usually plenty of extras made during a run, and those are usually left unnumbered.
Some go back to the artist, some are used for gallery displays, etc.  |
U did not read critically. I said without being signed and numbered it is just a print no matter the substrate.
I have a serigraph by Evind Earle where there never was an original piece. It was meant to just be a low volume serigraph of 175 pieces plus AP's. It cost Earle 15m to stop playing the commercial serigraph game. He felt it was commercializing his art.
You are talking about all the games that are played. If it is not hand signed by the artist then forget it I do not play.
Then there is the original stuff where the artist didnt sign the piece. There you better know your stuff. Sam Hyde Harris wife after he passed had a stamp authenticating pieces from his estate. Those I would consider to be legit.
Late one night on ebay I saw a small unframed unsigned piece. On the back it had an artist supply house in downtown L.A. which was in business before 1920 called the Louve. I knew the stamp. Looking at the colour pallet and brush strokes it was a ringer for Sam Hyde Harris who lived in Alhambra, CA, which was a few scant miles away from the supply house. The pieces composition was the back of a small CA bunglow house. I surmised it was a keep your chops up practice piece by Hyde and that was why it was not signed. I got it for 107 from a guy in Fresno who bought it for 2.00 at a Thrift.
Again late one night I was cruising ebay for about to end art. In between doing that I was looking a my just arrived American Art Review magazine when I saw an unsigned painting on ebay that was a dead on ringer for an artist who the magazine had a featured article on. I looked at the colour pallet, brush strokes, and composition. Dead on. Got it for 500.
The piece was of a steam ship in NY harbor circa 1910. It had been conserved with relining of the canvas(someone thought enough of it to spend some money on it in order to conserve it) and had a 1910 period frame. it does appear to have a partial singnature in one corner MUL NA. I believe it to be a Fredrick Mulhaupt piece done while he was living in NYC. Later he moved to Gloucester, MA where he was known as the dean of the cape ann school.