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Got a couple of prints, seem to be #1 in a limited run. No idea of the artist or value, nothing on the back. Any idea what they are?
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I don't think these kind of prints (i.e. not hand-printed) are really worth anything (unless the artist is very notable maybe). Odd that they're not signed or at least initialled or anything though. What's that text in the bottom right that's cut off?
On the right one, Howells mere 1\20 D2z maybe?
Left just has 1\20
What’s that text in the bottom right that’s cut off?
Athena.
Athena
Savage! 🤣
They're a bit baffling - it would be unusual to have a print edition in such small numbers without the artist putting their name to it - you'd usually have the signature next to the edition number. Because artist print processes are quite skilled and laborious the signature is effectively a QC mark - acknowledgment that copy is a bonifide art of the edition and not something substandand that someone has fished out of the bin - And it would be unusual to produce commercial/mechanical prints in such small numbers too as the set up costs would be too high
It's actually quite hard to see if they actually are prints in the artist-print sense - typically in those edition numbers it would be something like and etching or screen prints which you'd see in there being some degree of relief and layering in the surface - but they don't look very like either of those things
Has someone done something a bit odd like scanned a printed out inkjet copies of one of their paintings maybe?
It's the sort of thing I knock out for local artists who have delusions of grandeur - expecting to sell them for hundreds at a village art show! 🙂
yep that's exactly what I assumed it was - local artist has had them scanned/photo'd then got a print shop to knock out a "limited run" for sale at craft fairs/markets etc!It’s the sort of thing I knock out for local artists who have delusions of grandeur
I shall hang them with pride in my living room then. Got a right bargain.
If you were unscrupulous you could buy cheap prints and just write 1/20 Edition in the corner and then double the price at the car boot sale.
This is not recommended* and probably not a good idea after you are 10-12 years old and can get away with it as a childish prank.
* I found 23/50 or 31/100 much more believable to people than number 1 from the print run, but I was only 10-12 years old and it was just a childish prank.