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I enjoy Warhol's silkscreen prints. You can pick one up on Ebay for about $100 or so and it is pretty rare for a piece by such a prominent artists to be affordable but that's what Warhol's market was.

With that process you can also get spot colors that are not in the CYMK space, for instance last week I struggled with printing an image of Rudbeckia flowers until I understood that the RGB version of that yellow (at the edge of saturation so probably not as saturated as the real thing) doesn't exist in CYMK which means if you don't modify the color to be in gamut the printer will do it for you -- probably not the way you want.

With spot color (say Pantone) I could get some ink mixed up that would color match the flower even better -- it was before Pantone but Warhol's spot colors were often like that. And of course his work with the Amiga is much in the style he's famous for.

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>You can pick one up on Ebay

Are they, legit?

I used to collect coins before the days of the internet and decided to pull out my collection and thought about getting back into it. It's just scam / fakes everywhere on Ebay.

Typically these prices are for unlimited print runs as opposed to a run of a 100 or less (which command more money obviously, due to supply). I have a Haring print in my home that was about the same price (I think around $250 in total for print and frame) that's signed by the artist.

Unlikely to be authentic for 250$ for sure no provenance

What does authenticity mean in this context?

“signed by the artist”

What do you think it means in this context?

It's most likely a fake. Signed prints by Haring and Warhol for for a lot more — you can get an idea for how much by looking at Sotheby's/Christie's past results.

Again those are typically for limited runs - for unlimited runs they're surprisingly inexpensive.

I'd be surprised to learn about an unlimited run of a print that is signed by an artist like Warhol or Haring. The lithographs in your sibling comment are in the price range you're talking about, but have a printed signature.

Haring Lithographs really aren't expensive

https://www.grafiart.shop/1/index.php?id_category=4923&contr...

Certain artists have methods to authenticate their work. In general, I wouldn't trust ebay. Fakes abound, coins, art, any high value collectables. Consider this interesting story from earlier this year: https://nypost.com/2024/02/21/us-news/brian-walshe-sentenced...

If you want original art, especially from an artist as popular as Warhol, it's best to go through galleries or art auctions. You don't have to be in NY or LA, Paris or London, etc. You probably have some places in driving distance. Most ship, too. These places have actual reputations on the line and can't hide behind ebay or just open up shop with a different name.

I've made some CMYK (e.g. inkjet) prints that were inspired by Warhol and anime fan art. I took a class in silkscreen printing and I'm probably going to be taking one in block printing soon. If I was going to get better at silkscreening an obvious idea is to do something more or less Warhol-inspired.

My understanding is that there is an interesting universe of fakes, for instance Warhol would make some screens and send them off to get printed, he would authorize, say, 100 prints and sign and number those, but the printers would hold on to the screens and make more that weren't signed.

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