How do you determine if a painting is an original or reproduction?
How can you tell if a painting is not a print?
If your artwork image has what looks like a clean, straight, arbitrary boundary around it that doesn’t extend to the edges of the canvas, paper or other surface, you most likely have a print of some sort.
How do you tell if a print is a reproduction?
Both prints and reproductions are copies of some original image, but they are made in quite different ways. Prints are copies painstakingly made by the artist, one at a time; reproductions are copies made mechanically, usually quickly and in large numbers, without involving the artist.
Do reproduction paintings have signatures?
A Giclee print may be hand signed and may have dabs of paint applied by the artist to enable the print to be sold as an original work of art. — machine-made reproductions usually do not have hand-made signatures. — machine-made reproductions often have stock identification numbers on the back of the art work.
Are reproduction oil paintings signed?
When you commission an art reproduction of a painting, your artist is replicating the painting you have asked him to copy and not the signature. To replicate the signature, would in essence make your artwork a forgery since obviously Monet or Picasso did not paint your art reproduction paintings.
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