Prints and editions
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What an edition is
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An original oil painting starts at €750 and there is exactly one of each. A signed print is €35 plus shipping, measures 100 × 80 cm, and comes from an edition of no more than 50. Those are two genuinely different things to own, and the word “print” is used so loosely online that it is worth being precise about which one you are looking at.
New here? Start with these three.
What an edition is
- What you get for €35: what is in the tube, what the edition and the signature mean, and what €35 does not buy.
- Open edition vs limited edition: the only difference that matters. Why limited is about timing rather than scarcity, and the three questions to ask any seller.
- Why a closed edition is never reprinted: what the promise commits the painter to, and what happens when an edition runs out.
Buying a print
- Are signed prints worth buying? What a signature adds, what it does not, and why nobody here forecasts what a sheet will be worth.
- Where to buy erotic art online without ending up on a print farm: the difference between a closed edition from the studio that made the painting and an on-demand poster warehouse.
- Buying erotic art: cost, choosing, and what you are actually buying.
The two things you can buy
- The signed prints, from €35: the twelve paintings that are available as a limited edition capped at fifty.
- The original paintings, from €750: oil on stretched canvas, one of one, unframed and ready to hang.
Once it arrives
- How your work is packed and shipped: a canvas travels flat in a box, a print rolled in a tube, and what to do in the first hour.
- How to display erotic art at home: a print needs framing where a canvas does not, which changes where it can go.
- Frequently asked questions about buying, framing and shipping
Questions people ask
What is the difference between a signed print and the original painting?
The original is a single oil painting on stretched canvas. There is one of it and there will never be a second. A signed print is a printed reproduction of that painting, hand signed on the back, from an edition capped at 50. Both are sold from the same studio by the same painter, at €750 and up for an original and €35 for a print.
How many prints are there of each painting?
No more than 50 per painting. That is a ceiling, not a count: an edition is capped at fifty and may well be smaller. The edition is closed before the first sheet is sold, so what the shop lists is what is left of that run.
Are the prints ever reprinted?
No. Each edition is printed once and never reprinted. When an edition is gone, it is gone: the painting stays, the edition does not come back.
Does a signed print come with a certificate?
No. A print is hand signed on the back and that is what it is: a print. The certificate goes with an original painting.
Which paintings are available as a print?
Twelve of the paintings have a signed edition: Kayleigh (Tattoos), Kayleigh and Emily (Girls), Veronika (American Girl), Deelee (Golden Girl), Deelee (Black Straps), Pandora (Dreaming in Blue), Dailey (Illustrated), Katrina (Gold Leaf), Elisa (Appetite), Riae (Shy), Sharina (Blue Nights) and Mikayla (Hot Summer). The rest of the series exists only as the original canvas.
Buying is the easy part, and €35 makes that part easier still. The wall is not cheaper: a print hangs in the same room, in front of the same visitors, and collects the same opinion about you as the canvas would. The price is the only thing that changed. That is not a reason to buy the canvas instead, it is a reason to know which decision you are actually making. The reaction fades inside a month. Hang it anyway.
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