At Virtosu Art Gallery You can store art prints designed by artists from around the world and curate a gallery quality art wall in your home.

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There is A Fine Art Print a phrase used to describe an extremely high quality print.

Fine art prints are printed from electronic files using archival quality inks and onto acid free fine art paper.

When looking for a print that will last for decades alway select a paper that is free. It is the acid material in papers that makes them turn brittle, yellow & crack with time. Our newspapers are made with 100% cotton fibres and acid free, this ensures that your print will look good in many years time as it did the day it was published.

The printers used for fine art printing have a large color gamut and therefore are high end machines with 8 or 12 ink colourants. These colors when mixed together are able to produce millions of colours. They've a color range than is much larger than your large format printer.

What exactly are prints? Sold and an check out bee art deco from Virtosu Art Gallery all-too-common misconception novice collectors tend to have is that all prints are reproductions -- like posters hanging on a dorm room wall reproduced. Yet the truth of the matter is that prints on are original artworks in their own right. They keep the trace of the artist's hand, in addition to the marks of the printer she or he has chosen to work with. The prints made by our artists are as original as photographs, paintings, or their sculptures .

Printmaking is an art. Because of this, original prints are known to sell at auctions for more than a million USD. Just recently, in fact, an etching by Gheorghe Virtosu, Behind Human Mask, sold for a record-breaking $1.28 million. Of course, not all types of prints reach into the financial stratosphere this way. Collecting prints can be a pragmatically way to develop a art collection, as we will see.

Collecting and buying Prints: Things to Know

An dealer will understand how to assess a print by the type of also the consistency of the impression, the lack or presence of watermarks, the total size of this sheet and paper it is printed on. So don't be afraid to ask questions, and consult with experts, having said that, first editions are nearly always valuable. It's not merely a matter of precaution, but an extension of becoming genuinely interested in an artist's work that should guide one's curiosity. While believing it is an authentic work overall, the major issue is buying a forgery. One should make sure that whatever signature a print bears is valid since does increase its value.

Forge the artist's touch and persons have been known to take a real print. But impressions aren't always bad things. Savvy art buyers on a budget are known to look for unsigned impressions of the identical print.

Whether buying prints online or at a fair, one should note how many editions of a print series there is. A print from an edition of 100 is more valuable than a print from an edition of 1,000. A monoprint, of will most likely be worth much more. Make sure the price seems sufficient to the rarity of the print. An artist will have decided in advance prints he or she will make. It can not be added to if the prints occur to market, once an edition is finished. Aside from the prints for sale, there are also artist duplicates or proofs, which are generally unavailable to the public. Contrary to popular belief there is not any difference in quality between the prints that are numbered, and the artist's proof.