{"id":31749,"date":"2019-01-23T13:50:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T13:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=31749"},"modified":"2019-01-23T13:50:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T13:50:39","slug":"ask-the-collector-with-holly-hager-collecting-101-prints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/ask-the-collector-with-holly-hager-collecting-101-prints\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Collector with Holly Hager Collecting 101: Prints"},"content":{"rendered":"
Painting or print\u2014can you tell which one is which? These images are details from works by <\/span>Colbert Mashile<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Guy Buffet<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n When you\u2019re new to art, one of the biggest challenges is understanding prints. To the untrained eye, they can look the same as other kinds of works. So how can you tell the difference between prints, paintings, and drawings?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Last year, friends came to me twice wondering if their friends had gotten good deals, maybe incredible deals, on art. One bought a Salvador Dali, and the other bought a Marc Chagall. You probably know these artists. They\u2019re giants in the Western canon.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Both buys were purely financial investments. The Chagall was from a dealer. The Dali was from someone who\u2019d inherited it. Neither buyer knew anything about art. Since both artists are household names, each thought they\u2019d bought way below market. They paid thousands but thought they\u2019d gotten paintings worth hundreds of thousands. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Both actually bought prints and paid above retail. The Dali was selling online for $200. If these buyers had been investing in themselves, they would\u2019ve been thrilled to wake up to masterworks for the rest of their lives. Instead, they were really disappointed.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n What happened? They mistook prints for paintings. At first, that\u2019s a really easy mistake to make. Once you understand the difference, though, it\u2019s just as easy to tell them apart.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n