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

Virtosu Fine Art works closely with artist's representatives in regional offices around the world. Our expertise and passion for their topic, including modern and contemporary art prints, brings a global audience at our earnings with buyers.

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

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

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

The printers have a color gamut and therefore are high end machines usually with 8 or 12 ink colourants. These colours when mixed together are able to produce millions of different colours. They have a colour range than is larger than your large format printer that is typical.

What exactly are prints? Sold en masse and an misconception novice collectors tend to have is that all prints are reproductions -- like posters hanging on a dorm room wall, mechanically reproduced. Yet the truth of the matter is that prints on those occasions when they do take the form of a poster, are artworks in their own right. They keep the marks, in addition to the trace of the artist's hand with. The prints created by our artists are only as original as paintings, their sculptures, or photographs .

First of all, printmaking is an art. Because of this, original prints have been known to sell at auctions for over a million USD. Just recently, in fact, an etching by Gheorghe Virtosu, Behind Human Mask, sold for a record-breaking $1.28 million. Needless to say, not all kinds of prints reach into the financial stratosphere in this way. Prints that are collecting can be a inexpensive way to develop a art collection as we'll see. What's essential is to know what to search for.

Buying and Collecting Prints: What to Know

An experienced dealer will know how to assess a print by the type of the absence or presence of watermarks paper it is printed on, the total size of this sheet and the consistency of the impression. Having said this, first editions are nearly always valuable, so don't be afraid to ask questions, and consult with experts. An extension of being interested curiosity, although it's not a matter of precaution. When believing it is an authentic work overall, the issue to be cautious about is buying a forgery. Since there has been that a print signed by the artist does increase its value, one should make sure whatever signature a print bears is valid.

Persons are known to take a print that was genuine and invent the artist's signature. Since a print signed in pencil by the artist is worth more than the same composition unsigned, an individual must be particularly careful if collecting works by A-list artists such as Picasso, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, etc.. But impressions are not always things that are bad. Savvy art buyers on a budget are known to look for impressions of the print.

Whether buying prints at or online a fair, one should always note how many variants 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. Similarly, a monoprint, of will be worth. Make sure the price appears to be sufficient to the rarity of this print. An artist will have decided in advance how many prints he or she will make. Once an edition is finished, it can not be added to https://www.virtosuart.com/fine-art/art-prints/modern-pollination-framed-art-print if the prints occur to sell. There are artist duplicates or proofs, which are generally unavailable to the public. Contrary to popular belief, however, there is no difference in quality between the numbered prints (print #1, #2, #3, etc.), as well as the artist's proof.