Editions
Three kinds of work.
Named honestly.
An edition is worth what its documentation is worth. So here is exactly what each of the three is, including the part that is easier not to mention.
Not for sale
Original
Printed, then worked over by hand — brush, medium and acrylic in layers — and signed physically by the artist.
Fifty of these exist. They are held by the family for exhibition.
Where stock remains
Lifetime Edition
Printed and signed by the artist during his lifetime.
Where any remain they are described as such, and the signature is his own.
What this store offers
Fine Art Estate Edition
Printed now from the artist's own master file, on fine art archival paper or canvas.
- Edition of 6, individually numbered
- Estate stamp
- Certificate of authenticity signed by the family
- Not artist-signed
Why an estate edition is not a lesser thing
The file these editions are printed from is his. The colour is his, the layers are his, the decision about where the picture stops is his. What is missing is the hand that went back into the surface afterwards, and the signature.
We could have left that unsaid. Instead every certificate states it, so that a Lifetime Edition and an Estate Edition can never be confused — which protects the people who bought from him while he was alive as much as it protects the people buying now.
Format and price
| Square | Price | Regular | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 × 25 cm | $480 | 25 × 35 cm | $480 |
| 35 × 35 cm | $980 | 35 × 50 cm | $980 |
| 50 × 50 cm | $1,480 | 50 × 70 cm | $1,480 |
| 70 × 70 cm | $1,780 | 70 × 100 cm | $1,780 |
These are the artist's own formats and his own published prices, from his public price list of February 2015, checked against orders he was paid for.
Why not every work is offered in every format
A picture has a shape of its own. Forcing it onto a sheet of a different shape means cutting part of it off, and we will not do that. So each work is offered only in the formats it can actually occupy — filling the sheet where the proportions agree, and printed inside the sheet with an archival margin where they do not. 201 of the 299 works fill at least one sheet exactly.
Every format states the resolution the picture will actually be printed at, because that is the number a printer needs. We never enlarge a file to fill a size it cannot hold — but nor do we refuse a size his own masters carry. He printed these files at 70 × 100 cm as editions, and far larger still as originals.