Limited Edition
Tips on buying limited edition art by Duncan Lisseman
When buying limited edition prints by modern contemporary artists such as Rolf Harris and Sarah Jane Szikora you may notice that you can buy them on auction sites for a lot cheaper than high street Galleries. The high street galleries are bound by the publishers to sell them at a minimum price. If the gallery sells any cheaper than this, the publisher will stop selling to them. It helps maintain the price of art , and retains an air of exclusivity.
So how can these be sold cheaper on auction sites ?
If they are older prints and / or second hand this is probably legitimate. However if they are recent editions and are considerably cheaper than high street Galleries you would then have to question their legitamacy .
When buying any, ask as many questions as you can to the potential seller, ask for the edition number, if it has a signed certificate, and if they could email a copy of it to you before you consider buying. Also ask if it’s an import. Prices in different countries vary, so you could be paying over the odds for a print that’s valued more in your country of residence Make sure you get all this information in an email, not just a phone call. You never know you might need it as proof ! If in any doubt, just trust your instinct and don’t buy it.
The only way you can be sure of what you’re buying is to use one of the many high street galleries such as Fineartshopper. You’ll be able to tell if they’re genuine by checking if they publish their address and if they’re listed in yellow pages and VAT registered and so forth.
You can also check if the supplier is listed as a registered seller through the publishers website. In the UK companies such as Demontfot Fine Art and Washington Green are 2 of the main suppliers of prints from artists such as Doug Hyde, Peter Smith and Rebecca Lardner. Their websites have a list of registered suppliers.
You can take the attitude of being happy to accept a potentially illegal copy of a print. It would still look the same on the wall, wouldn’t it ?
Well, it may do for a while, but if it’s printed on the cheap, the quality of paper and inks won’t be any good, and in time the print would more than likely fade considerably.
You would also have to consider that if not genuine it would have no re-sale value, unlike the genuine article.
Even more importantly you’d be lining the pockets of unscrupulous dealers at the expense of talented , hard working artists, many of whom have spent years being broke and are now finally making a bit of money.
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