Degas rare canceled incomplete plate “women in laundry”
Whatever happened to what-s-his-name??? Well, now, that’s always been one of those questions best left unanswered. In the meantime, while you’re waiting, let’s tackle the biggest problem in marketing, which can be summed up as “The JUNO Principle:
“What’s the sense trying to scare people if they can’t even see or hear you?”
See, that is the problem. You can have the best item in the world, the most attractive advertising and promotion, but if nobody sees you or your ads or your product, it’s as if you were a tree falling in the forest, and you can quote me on that. Continue reading →
“Country Road Along Canal, Amsterdam 1645” comes out differently every time.
I’ve given my sources for my metal embossing projects, so that you can bring your prices down, down, down, to the level where there’s some profit in it and it’s worth your while to devote time, energy and talent to the thing.
But what if you DON’T intend to quit the day job and sell your embossed metal artwork to thousands of satisfied customers??? What if you don’t intend to order and await shipments of industrial foil, huge cartons of coin-flips and enormous quantities of sales tags? For you, there is a VERY good answer.
I make kits that are attuned to specific projects. You get all the materials and supplies you need to make 21 finished disks mounted in “flip” coin-frames for sale — that’s one to wear in a bezel or carry as a pocket-pal or purse-pal in an acrylic capsule, if you decide to use those items.
ALL MY DESIGNS COME IN ONLY ONE SIZE, made especially for the dollar-sized disk & bezel. You can re-size them as you wish. You will do better by just sort of roughly and generally copying the lines rather than trying to trace them, but some folks won’t have it any other way, so for them, you’ll have to shrink the thing down on photoshop and print it out on a TRANSFER paper, I suppose.
If you work this system rightly, you’ll develop your own “iconographics” and get them into the metal form. The whole point here is to utilize “reductionism” in order to simplify the form, as Cangialosi would have said it. You can also understand the concept in the following Matisse-ian way:
“EXPRESS THE SUBJECT WITH THE FEWEST POSSIBLE LINES.” Continue reading →
JOAN MIRO — Original Mourlot Hand-Pulled Stone Lithograph printed on wove paper, it is the back cover of ” XXe Siecle #4″, published in 1954; edition size about 5,000, probably a few hundred circulating around nowadays, or far less, as a result of many of them falling into a permanent collection of a library, university or museum. A very rare original print with lots of early primitivism and strong paint strokes. The double “X” signifies the “twentieth century” aspect of the famous high-grade French art “magazine” of the Golden Age of Art. Condition is Extra-Fine.
Bidding Range: $950 – $1500
SIDE-NOTES: This is hard to find, and expensive to buy, with no hope of “fast turnover”. It may take years to sell a print in a gallery. There are some XXe Siecle originals on eBay, and a lot of things that people THINK are XXe Siecle that are also there. Some prints are as low as $30 bucks or so, when the seller is unaware of the value of the print, and when the artist is not as well-collected, highly valued or among the “Big Name Artists” like Rembrandt, Renoir, Chagall, Miro, Picasso, and Matisse. It’s not a good idea to seek out bargains in the art market. You pay for what you get, and you get what you pay for.Continue reading →
2006-005 Gallery Tag: $3,500
Artist: Y. Helman
Medium: ORIGINAL Oil on canvas
Title: “Cape Pleasant, 1965”
Signature: Lower right hand corner of the image
Size: 20” x 28”
Frame: Original Vintage Handmade Custom Wood Frame
Condition: Excellent Continue reading →
SCRIM1 — “Amsterdam Canals Windy Afternoon”, 2.4.15, signed & dated in the plate.
All of my Scrimshaw Landscapes come to you printed on rare, laid-linen Dover 17th century style handmade watermarked paper, the same paper used by Rembrandt, van Ostade and others. The original artwork is scratched into the plate with a small sharp point. The lighter lines are called “drypoint” and the heavier darker areas are called “burr”. The originals are not for sale, but stunning, fine-art prints are available now.
This edition is limited by the amount of the rare Dover paper available. It is no longer made. I have the world’s supply. It was a paper favored by book restorers who wanted to match the 17th century paper of the volume under conservation. The print is 100% archival and should outlast this civilization if left to age on its own. I have many 400 year old prints made on this type of paper, and they show only normal signs of age, no foxing, no staining, nothing but normal age, which in this case, means “microscopic”, no visible damage. Continue reading →
Scrimshaw Etching of a fisherman’s house, “Parson Jackson’s Hole”, signed & dated in the plate.
I’m releasing my version of 21st century etchings with a series of reproductions of my latest most recent etchings produced here at my atelier. These will be printed on high-grade photo paper to get ALL the nuances of the originals, without the danger of them being used as counterfeits — the back clearly reads “photo paper”.
The print itself is $25, a fair price for a signed-and-dated-in-the-plate graphic multiple, if my memory of the art market serves me right. I will float-mount your print in a double mat board, and mount it for you in one of my finest museum-grade heavyweight 6″ wide hand-carved gilded hardwood frames for an additional $650, or in a lightweight custom frame at only $125 for the entire framing job — both framing jobs do not include the cost of the artwork — I have to pay folks to do these jobs, and fair wages is fair wages. It isn’t easy to frame a work of art — both Robbert and I have done it, at the rate of hundreds of pieces a week, and believe it, the pay is scarcely enough to cover the personal cost.
You can order a LIMITED EDITION print on handmade 17th century type “Dover” paper, made for 400 years by an unbroken line of family paper-makers. The paper is valued at $150 a full sheet at today’s rare paper market prices, and was $30 a sheet wholesale back in 1987, when it was obtained from the factory in England where it had been made many years earlier. Continue reading →
