![]() ![]() Andy Warhol had a good showing, too, with 11 works selling in the six-figure range, including The Scream (After Munch) (1984). Such range is evident in the biannual prints and multiples evening auctions-the prints and multiples sale at Christie’s in April raised a total of $7.68 million, with prices ranging from $3,000 for a series of prints by Takashi Murakami to $516,500 for a series of nine signed engravings by Louise Bourgeois. ![]() “The reason for a higher value in the printmaking field is the same as they are in other categories: rarity, the complexity of how it was made, and then the nature of how commercial the composition is,” Griffith says. ![]() ![]() They just sort of experiment.”Īlexandra Slattery, a sales manager at SoHo print gallery Two Palms, says that priority number one is educating new print collectors on the merits of the form, so they understand that it’s not just a cheaper version of an original work on paper, or a smaller reproduction of a painting. “With a place like us, we have studios where artists will come in and work with incredible master printmakers, and maybe they’ll have an idea of a drawing that they start from, but a lot of times they don’t. “A lot of people really just think that prints are reproductions of existing paintings, which is really not the case at all,” says Rachel Gladfelter, a director at Pace Prints Chelsea. And while the fact that they are made in multiples can make the whole endeavor feel a bit less special than the romance of a painting forged from the hand of the artist, print dealers who work directly with artists say it’s a medium that allows for exciting and fresh experimentation. Rather, they are distinct works independent from any other body of the artist’s work, an image that is made, usually with a plate, and then transferred to paper via ink as many times as the edition requires. Nope! Prints are neither copies nor posters. ![]()
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