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

Discover the art print Geisha by Gheorghe Virtosu

A Fine Art Printing is a phrase used to refer to an extremely higher quality print.

Fine art prints are often printed from digital files using archival quality inks and onto acid free art paper.

When looking for a print that will last for decades alway select a paper that is free. It's the acid material in many papers that makes them turn brittle, yellow & crack over time. Our papers are all acid free and made with 100% cotton fibers, this makes certain your print will look as good in many years time as it did the day it was printed.

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

What are prints? An all-too-common misconception novice collectors often have is that all prints are reproductions -- such as posters hanging on a dorm room wall reproduced and sold. Yet the fact of the matter is that prints, even on are original artworks in their own right. They bear the trace of the artist's hand, in addition to the marks of the printer she or he has selected to work with. The prints made by our favorite artists are as original as paintings, their sculptures, or photographs -- there is just more of them.

First and foremost, printmaking is an art. For this reason, original prints have been known to sell for more than a million USD at auctions. Of course, not all types of prints hit into the stratosphere this way. As we will see, collecting prints can be a pragmatically way to develop a art collection. What is essential is to know what to search for.

Collecting and buying Prints: What to Know

An dealer will know how to assess a print by the type of paper the absence or presence of watermarks, the total size of the sheet and the consistency of this impression. So don't be afraid to ask questions, and consult with experts first editions are always more valuable. An extension of being interested in an artist's work which should guide one's curiosity, although it's not a matter of precaution. Overall, the major issue is buying a forgery while believing it's an authentic work. Since does increase its value, an individual should make sure whatever signature a print bears is valid.

Forge 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, one 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 look for unsigned impressions of the print.

Whether purchasing prints at or online a fair, one should always note how many editions of a print series there is. Similarly, a monoprint, of will be worth more. Make sure the price appears to be sufficient to the print's rarity. An artist will have determined in advance prints she or he will make. It can not be Geisha buy art print online at Virtosu Art Gallery added to, even if the prints happen to sell well once an edition is finished. Aside from the prints for sale, there are also artist duplicates or proofs, which are generally unavailable to the general public.