I have 2 Marc Chagall Framed works. How do I know if it is a Print or Giclee?

I have 2 Marc Chagall Framed works. How do I know if it is a Print or Giclee The Blue Bird is numbered 150/500 and looks like a pencil signature. The Bouquet and Lovers is numbered 259/500 and the signatureappears to be ink.

Are these Prints, Lithos or giclees? Asked by sandybear 29 months ago Similar questions: Marc Chagall Framed works Print Giclee Education & Reference.

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They are most likely lithographs Lithographs and giclees are both types of prints. Lithographs are more obviously prints while Giclees tend to look more like an original artwork but a trained individual will still be able to tell the difference between Giclees and originals. While lithographs are the most common print form, screen printing, aka seriographs, is another print form that may have been used for your pieces but that is far far less likely than lithographss.As you probably know, any time you have a numbered artwork like 150/500 or 259/500 this is indicating that it is a limited printing.

Your copies are the 150th and 259th of up to 500 possible prints that may have been made. Here is a bit on the giclee print processes from Wikipedia... "Giclée (pronounced /? I?

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Kle) is an invented name (i.e. A neologism) for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray"1.

It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne2, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.

" I didn’t know how Giclee’s were done and hadn’t realized it is such a young print form. Since Marc Chagall was not alive when this process was invented you can be pretty sure that what you have are not giclee prints with his actual signature! It could still be a giclee print with a facsimile (replicated) signature, though.

Facsimile prints can and often are still done as limited numbered prints even though they are basically just well done fakes. Anyway, more to the point of your question, Mark Chagall did a lot of lithographs in his time so you can be pretty sure that this is the form of your prints. There is a lithograph numbered 30/200, which was also signed in pencil and is called "The Blue Bird" at the gallery in the first source link below.

It does not make sense to me, though, that you would have a print numbered up to 500 and signed in pencil (ie not a facsimile) while this one is numbered only up to 200 and also signed in pencil. I am by no means an art expert... not even close... so there may be a legitimate reason for this that I just don’t know of. I couldn’t find anything about the second art work that you called "The Bouquet and Lovers" but could it be "Red Bouquet with Lovers"?

Check out the second link in the sources for an image. The one listed at that site is also from a 500 limited print but is a facsimile. Whatever form your art is in be sure to enjoy it even if you are planning on selling it and won’t have it much longer!

Sources: http://www.hubertgallery.com/ARTISTS%20PAGES/POP%20UPS/CHAGALL/bluebirdpopup.html, http://www.goantiques.com/detail,after-chagall-red,1958360.html .

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