Links

Heart to Heart www.hearttoheart.nl
Ton van der Kroon www.tonvanderkroon.nl
Paul Krause www.art-printing.com

Giclée

What is a Gicléeprint?
The giclée printing technique has been developed specifically to fulfil the demands
of fine art collectors and connaisseurs for limited edition, museum quality art
reproductions. As such it has established its place amongst other reproduction
techniques such as etching, lithography and screen printing. Gicléeprinting is not
replacing these other forms of graphic art, it is merely a modern addition to the
already existing, more traditional printing techniques. Although not yet widely known, many art lovers as well as museums have started collecting works of art printed with the glicée printing technique.

The walls of The Louvre
The giclée process is a high tech method of printing which can generate prints of
digital images of UNRIVALED quality. Sheets are printed one at a time, and images
printed at the highest settings can require more than one hour each.
Again, as in traditional printmaking and photography, extensive handwork is required to produce the final print. This time consuming, often tedious proofing ensures that the final print is true to the artist’s intent. Gliclée prints are now widely shown and distributed from galleries and art studios to the walls of the Louvre.

Facts
• each gicléeprint is made in close cooperation with the artist, who will check for and approve the colour and the quality of the end product. Every individual print of the limited edition has been checked for quality by both the Masterprinter and the artist.
• all gicléeprints are personally signed and numbered by the artist!
• each gicléeprint is accompanied by a CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY, also
personally signed by the artist. The certificate states the materials used in the print,
who the Masterprinter is, the size of the total edition and the specific edition number of the glicléeprint.
• the limited Edition is strictly limited to the stated number of the edition!
• all materials used in producing the giclée prints are of the highest quality materials such as long lasting, non-fading inks and museum quality etching paper. Visual Spirit Art Gallery is using highly pigmented and waterproof inks that have a
minimal guaranteed lifetime of 80 - 150 years.
• Visual Spirit Art Gallery is working exclusively with Europe’s first Masterprinter
Paul Krause from Krause Editions, Almere.