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Giclée prints provide top quality resistance and possess archival standards of permanence. Giclée printing offers one of the highest degrees of accuracy and richness of colour available in any of the reproduction techniques My prints are produced using the Giclée printing technique on fine art watercolour paper using the leading inks in the industry today. My Limited Edition Prints are very limited indeed. Each edition is limited to a maximum of 100 and therefore highly collectable. All have been individually signed and numbered by me and are validated by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Giclee Printing
Giclee (zhee-klay) - The French word
"giclée" is a feminine noun that means a spray or a spurt of liquid. The
word may have been derived from the French verb "gicler" meaning "to
squirt".
The term "giclee print"
connotes an elevation in printmaking technology. Images are generated
from high resolution digital scans and printed with archival quality
inks onto various substrates including canvas, fine art, and photo-base
paper. The giclee printing process provides better color accuracy than
other means of reproduction.
Giclee prints are created
typically using professional 8-Color to 12-Color ink-jet printers. Among
the manufacturers of these printers are vanguards such as Epson,
MacDermid Colorspan, & Hewlett-Packard. These modern technology printers
are capable of producing incredibly detailed prints for both the fine
art and photographic markets. Giclee prints are sometimes mistakenly
referred to as Iris prints, which are 4-Color ink-jet prints from a
printer pioneered in the late 1970s by Iris Graphics.
Giclee prints are advantageous
to artists who do not find it feasible to mass produce their work, but
want to reproduce their art as needed, or on-demand. Once an image is
digitally archived, additional reproductions can be made with minimal
effort and reasonable cost. The prohibitive up-front cost of mass
production for an edition is eliminated. Archived files will not
deteriorate in quality as negatives and film inherently do. Another
tremendous advantage of giclee printing is that digital images can be
reproduced to almost any size and onto various media, giving the artist
the ability to customize prints for a specific client.
The quality of the giclee print
rivals traditional silver-halide and gelatin printing processes and is
commonly found in museums, art galleries, and photographic galleries.
Numerous examples of giclee prints
can be found in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of
Modern Art, and the Chelsea Galleries. Recent auctions of giclee prints
have fetched $10,800 for Annie Leibovitz, $9,600 for Chuck Close, and
$22,800 for Wolfgang Tillmans (April 23/24 2004, Photographs, New York,
Phillips de Pury & Company.)
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