Introduction

Art print
quality assurance


Tony Max art prints on paper are:
• Acid-free

• Fade-resistant

• Fine art

• Giclees

• Limited edition

• Signed and numbered

• Collectors' items

• Small edition sizes

• Available in different sizes

• Affordable (They are the lowest-priced, high-quality giclees available in Metro Vancouver and southwestern British Columbia.)

• Archival The canvas prints are printed on the finest artists' canvas and varnished with the highest quality, museum-grad giclee veneer. They are certified with a 100-year lightfastness rating by the Fine Art Trade Guild.

Tony Max uses stainless steel staples to stretch his canvas giclees, even though most other giclee publishers use the rust-prone, regular staples and the stainess steel staples cost two and-a-half times as much as regular staples.

The paper prints are rated at 61 to 62 years under regular glass and 125 to 128 years when framed under UV glass)

• Environmentally friendly (Because they're archival, they last for generations when properly cared for.)

• Local (For people in southwestern British Columbia.)

• Hand-crafted to a large degree (Although they are printed with the use of a printer, they involve a tremendous amount of hand-crafting and personal input from the artist. It's because of this personal input and attention to detail and fine craftsmanship by the artist that the prints are so popular. See below.)
Every Tony Max limited edition giclee is printed on thick, high-quality, 100 percent cotton rag, acid-free paper to ensure archival quality.


The inks have been scientifically tested with the paper for lightfastness by Wilhelm Imaging Research, the world's leading researcher of giclee lightfastness.

A certificate of authenticity and biography come with every signed and numbered limited edition print.

Tony Max signs ad numbers every limited edition print.


He also inspects each print before releasing it, thus ensuring that the print meets his exacting standards.


Every print comes with a combined certificate of authenticity and biography, on which the following are documented:

• the name of the image and

• the size of the image and

• the number of the print in the edition
(for example: 5/300).

Every certificate/biography bears the Tony Max logo.


Every Tony Max giclee is a sterling, archival work of art on paper. They are made to last for generations, and in that regard they are environmentally sound.


They are not posters. They are not paintings. (Many people mistakenly refer to them as posters or paintings.)


The limited number of prints in the limited editions enhances the prints' value and makes the prints collectors' items. The prints –whether or not they're limited by having their number artificially capped by the artist – are naturally limited anyway by the relatively small demand for images of Vancouver and southwestern British Columbia, compared to subjects such as nude figures or abstract expressionism, which can be sold around the world because of the greater, overall world interest in such generic images.


Tony Max giclees are not "original" prints according to the normal fine art definition as it pertains to fine art. There are two meanings of the word "original" that are relevant in terms of fine art, which are defined by a dictionary as:
1. "an artwork that's not a reproduction of an existing work.
2. "a work of art that was created directly and personally by a particular artist"


Tony Max giclees are reproductions of his paintings, so they don't fit the first, standard definition of "original" prints. However, they are created "directly and personally by a particular artist" (Tony Max) so they fit the second definition.


See also the Giclees section for a description of the giclee production process.

Introduction