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This
Ebay listing
is for this stunning fine art giclée reproduction 'old-master'
on heavy weight cotton canvas - one of 100's in our collection.
The reproduction is of the highest quality with strikingly
vibrant colour - a unique possession to be enjoyed every day and
treasured for years.
The picture size on the canvas is 20" x 16" (50.8 x
40.6cm) - the ideal size for a centrepiece for any room.
The canvas is 24" wide and has a minimum 1" border
around the picture - so final canvas dimensions are 24" x
18" minimum (61cm x 45.7cm). The canvas can be stretched
using standard stretcher bars or be board mounted for framing.
Giclée (pron. 'jee-clay') is a process
for printing fine-art using very fine droplets of ink to produce
very accurate reproductions.
Buy
Additional Items and Save P+P !
If you purchase more than one
canvas, there are big savings for combining post and packing in
a single shipment.
Stunning
Masterpiece - Bargain Price !
The quality and classic style that this superb work-of-art
exudes is guaranteed to excite admiring comment from everyone
who sees it.
Purchased from a gallery or store this canvas alone would
typically sell for
LS 60 - LS 100 in the UK, EUR 85 - EUR 150 in Europe or $ 100 -
$ 175 in the USA or elsewhere worldwide.
Purchased with a frame of similar quality from a gallery or
retail store it would cost literally hundreds !!
N.B. This is a genuine giclée
reproduction of the original work of art on canvas. It is not
a mass produced imitation 'painting' from Asia.
So
How Can We Do It ?
It's simple - selling via Ebay costs us way, way less than
selling via galleries, at picture sales
or by placing expensive advertisements in glossy magazines - so
we can pass big savings on to you.
There is absolutely no compromise on quality, the heavy-weight
canvas we use is used in museums all over the world,
the printing process is the highest quality, state-of-the-art,
giclée process and our frames are solid wood,
gilt frames that will look stunning for lifetimes, quite
literally.
We are
sure you will be absolutely delighted with your Old-Master.
Buy
Now andPick up a Fantastic Bargain !
Giclée
Explained
Key
Points
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High
Resolution Inkjet based Printing Process
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Printing
on Standard or Non-Standard Media – E.G. Canvas
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Print
Process uses More Inks (Up to 7 Colours) than Conventional
Printing
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Reproduces
a Much Wider Range and Depth of Colour than Conventional
Printing
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Produced
using Archive Quality Inks.
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Produced
on Expertly Calibrated Printing Devices to Ensure Highest
Reproduction Accuracy.
N.B.
Unfortunately, some prints are claimed to be Giclée prints,
but are reproduced using conventional (CMYK) printing processes
– beware of these inferior quality prints.
Defining
Giclée
Unfortunately
there is no universally agreed definition for the term Giclée.
So its always worth investigating how a Giclée print has been
produced before you buy it !
Our
simplest definition for Giclée is :
Giclée
(pron. 'jee-clay') - a process for printing fine-art using very
fine droplets of ink to produce very accurate reproductions.’
But
of course there is quite a lot more to it than that.
To
be of the very highest quality, a Giclée print will comply with
all of the key points above
– if any of the key points are absent, the quality of the
print may be drastically reduced.
The
Origin of Giclée
The
first Giclée prints were produced in the early 1990s when the
first large format inkjet printers emerged
that were capable of printing on non-standard printing paper and
other stocks .
These
devices were originally designed to enable specialist printers
and reprographics companies
to produce ‘proofs’ of advertisements to be placed in
newspapers and magazines
– on the actual stock that they would finally be
printed on.
It was soon realised that these devices could also be used to
reproduce fine-art on high quality art stocks and on real
canvas.
The
term ‘Giclée’, derived from the French ‘to-spray’, was
coined to differentiate these fine-art prints
from prints produced using a conventional printing process.
Giclée
vs Conventional Printing
Over
95% of colour printing today is produced using an ‘offset
lithographic’ printing process using 4 coloured printing inks
(CMYK inks).
These four inks, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (K), are
applied to paper in small dots of varying size.
The different dots of ink are ‘offset’ from one another on
the paper (usually in rosette type shapes)
and together form the illusion of a relatively broader range of
colour.
Just
look closely enough at any magazine or conventionally printed
material
and you will see that what your eye sees as an image with a wide
range of colour - is in fact produced using only four coloured
inks.
CMYK
printing has inherent limitations.
Reproducing the entire spectrum of colour by placing different
amounts of cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink
next to each other on paper – is of course impossible !
But,
with the skills of a very experienced printer or reprographics
expert these inherent limitations can be overcome
to enable colour printed material of a reasonably high quality
to be produced at a very low cost.
However,
it’s one thing to produce a magazine or product brochure with
acceptable colour reproduction quality
and quite another to faithfully reproduce fine-art with a wide
range and vibrant depth of colour !
Conventionally
produced CMYK art prints look generally dull and lifeless and
lack the vibrancy of real Giclée prints.
Giclée
– High Fidelity Printing
Today’s most
advanced printing devices, used for producing Giclée prints,
use seven different coloured inks,
thereby producing a far wider range and depth of colour than
conventional CMYK printing.
But crucially they also mix inks.
So, rather than simply arranging inks together to form the
illusion of ‘continuous tone’ colour,
Giclée print devices mix a palette of seven colours together to
produce truly vibrant,
accurate colour reproductions with wide tonal ranges.
In the same way
that you can mix together the colours red, blue and green
together
with white and black to produce almost, but not quite, the
entire spectrum of colour,
Giclée printing mixes colour to produce a colour range that
extend to the perceptible limits of the eye.
Giclee
on Canvas – Looks just like the Original !
One of the
major benefits of the Giclée process is the ability to print on
real artists canvas.
The result is stunning, vibrant colour reproduction combined
with the texture of real canvas,
prints that look just like the original work of art.
Today, museums
and galleries across the world have high quality reproductions
of famous
and valuable artworks produced to hang in place of the originals
that,
if left in natural and un-natural light conditions, would
rapidly deteriorate.
Next time you
walk around an art gallery see if you can work out which of the
paintings you see are originals
and which are actually Giclée reproductions !
Giclée
Archive Inks – Reproductions that Last Lifetimes !
Until very
recently there were just two main types of ink used by
high-resolution inkjet devices - pigment and dye-based inks.
Pigment inks
are very stable and have properties that inhibit fading.
But, they produce a limited range of colour – not very
suitable for Giclée prints.
Dye based inks
produce a very wide range of vibrant colour.
But, unfortunately they do deteriorate quite rapidly – again
not very suitable for Giclée printing.
Today’s
advanced hybrid inks combine the benefits of both Pigment and
Dye based inks
vibrant, long lasting colour.
These ‘archive quality’ inks have been independently tested
to resist any visible fading for over 100 years !
N.B. Again be
aware that some Giclée prints that you may be offered, are
produced using non-archive quality inks.
Giclée
– Expertly Produced
Perfect Giclée
prints are a result of the expert application of today’s most
advanced printing technologies.
However, producing the highest quality prints requires
considerable expertise in order to produce the first high
quality reproduction,
and to ensure that the quality of the subsequent reproductions
matches the first print.
The fine
tolerances of highly accurate Giclée print devices need expert
maintenance and re-calibration to ensure consistent quality.
Our
Giclée Prints
All our Giclée
canvasses are:
Printed on highest quality canvas as used by Museums and Art
Galleries across the world.
