Azsago Giclee Canvas Prints

Pronunciation : Giclee (s-zhee-klay) - French word

Creating a Giclee Canvas print of a Mudersbach painting is a fascinating and exacting process.  Essentially, a digital scan is made of the original painting and entered into a computer.  The computer then guides the ink nozzles, which spray multi-millions of microscopic droplets of pigment ink per second directly onto the canvas.  Together, these droplets create millions of color hues of varying shades and saturation.  Individually, the droplets are undetectable to the human eye.  The finished Giclee Canvas print is a continuous image as vibrant as the original painting, coated to provide UV protection and durability and is signed and numbered by Paul Mudersbach.  Each Giclee also comes with a signed certificate of authenticity.

Each of these Giclee Canvas reproductions is an investment in aesthetics, giving you the truest performance of the painting possible outside of owning the original.  Giclee Canvases by Mudersbach are printed for a limited number of editions from each original, available in 2 sizes, and then never reproduced again.  The total number set for an edition is never exceeded, and the sizes are very close to the original.  This prevents an edition from being diminished in value due to oddities.

The Giclee process is a natural progression in the development of an artists work. Using this process, artists are now capable of producing prints for both the fine art and photographic markets with the truest likeness to the original art work.  Incredibly detailed prints using sophisticated control of brilliant colors, subtle tones, and deep saturated pigments is possible.  Often times, an expert is required to distinguish an original watercolor from a Giclee print.  However, the Giclee prints should not be confused with traditional lower quality 4-Color or Iris prints, which were pioneered in the late 1970s.  The exceptional quality of the Giclee print rivals any traditional  silver-halide and gelatin printing processes and is commonly found in museums, art galleries, and photographic galleries.

Numerous examples of Giclee prints can also be found in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Chelsea Galleries. Recent auctions of Giclee prints have fetched $10,800 for Annie Leibovitz, $9,600 for Chuck Close, and $22,800 for Wolfgang Tillmans (April 23/24 2004, Photographs, New York, Phillips de Pury & Company.)

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