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What is a Giclee?
Giclee With the advent of the Giclee the art of fine printing has become even more precise. Because no screens are used, the prints have a higher apparent resolution than lithographs. The dynamic color range is like serigraph. In the Giclee process a fine steam of ink-more than four million droplets per second is sprayed onto archival art paper or canvas. The effect is similar to an air brush technique but much finer. Each piece is carefully hand mounted onto a drum which rotates during printing. Exact calculation of hue, value and density direct the ink of four nozzles. This produces a combination of 512 chromatic changes (with over 3 million colors possible) of highly saturated, nontoxic water-based ink. The artist's color approval and input are essential for creating the final custom setting for the edition. The latest advancements in the Giclee process are the work of a sophisticated fine art production facility that utilizes the highest resolution digital printers. This edition of fine art prints is a collaboration between the artist and a specially trained printing craftsmen. They have extended the boundaries of current technology by customizing their equipment, designing new programs, and offering protective coatings to ensure quality standards for the collector. Displaying a full color spectrum, Giclee prints capture every nuance of an original painting - be it watercolor, oil or acrylic
What does Remarque, Hors de Commerce, Artist Proof and Signed and Numbered mean?
R/M - Remarque's A current practice by some artist in the addition of a small personalized drawing near his penciled signature in the margin of the print. Known has a Remarque. Example R/M 1/8	A/P - Artist Proofs Common practice is that 10 to 15 percent of an edition reserved for the artist. These proofs are identical to impressions in the edition in most instances. Example A/P 3/35
H/C - Hor de Commerce Hor de Commerce (Not for trade) traditionally were the graphics pulled with the regular edition but marked by the artist for business use only. These graphics were used for entering shows, exhibits, samples, etc. Today however, since people began to acquire and collect them, these graphics now generally find their way to the market place through regular channels and are sold. Example: H/C 2/10	S/N - Signed and Numbered Authenticated with the artist signature, the total number of impressions in the edition, and the order in which impression is signed: "4/350", indicated that the print is an edition of 350 impressions.