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

Discover the art print Homosexual's Christening by Gheorghe Virtosu

A Fine Art Print is.

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

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

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

Just what are prints? Sold en masse and an all-too-common misconception novice collectors often have is that all prints are reproductions -- such as posters hanging on a dorm room wall, mechanically reproduced. Yet the truth of the matter is that prints, even on those occasions when they do take the form of a poster, are artworks in their own right. They keep the trace of the artist's hand, as well as the marks of the printer he or she has chosen to work with. The prints made by our artists are as original as their sculptures, paintings, or photographs .

Printmaking is an art. For this reason, original prints are 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 economic stratosphere this way. Prints that are collecting can be a inexpensive way to develop a respectable art collection as we'll see. What is essential is to know what to look for.

Buying and Collecting Prints: Things to Know

An experienced dealer will know how to assess a print by the sort of paper the lack or presence of watermarks, the size of this sheet and the consistency of the impression. Having Virtosu Art Gallery / The Christening of Homosexual buy art print online said this, first editions are always more valuable, so don't be afraid to ask questions, and consult with specialists. An extension of being interested curiosity, although it's not simply a matter of precaution. While believing it is an authentic work overall, the thing to be cautious about is purchasing a forgery. One should make sure that whatever signature a print bears is legitimate, since a print that has been signed by the artist does raise its value.

Invent the artist's signature and unscrupulous persons are known to take a print. Since a print signed in pencil by the artist is worth more than the exact same composition unsigned, an individual must be particularly cautious if collecting works by A-list artists like Picasso, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, etc.. But impressions are not always things that are bad. Art buyers on a budget are known to purposely look for impressions of the identical print.

Whether buying prints at or online a fair, one should always note how many editions 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. A monoprint, of will be worth even more. Make sure that the price appears to be sufficient to this print's rarity. An artist will have determined well in advance prints he or she will make. It can not be added to, even if the prints happen to sell well once an edition is completed. There are proofs or artist copies, which are generally unavailable to the public.