Tony Max art prints on paper are:
• Acid-free
• Fade-resistant
• Fine art
• Giclee
• Limited edition
• Prints
• Signed and numbered
• Collectors' items
• Small edition sizes
• Available in different sizes
• Affordable (They are the lowest-priced, high-quality giclées available in Metro Vancouver and southwestern British Columbia.)
• Archival (rated at 61 to 62 years under regular glass and 125 to 128 years when framed under UV glass)
• Environmentally friendly (Beacuse they're archival, they last for generations when properly cared for.)
• Local (For people in southwestern Britich 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.)
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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 edition
• the number of the print in the edition
(for example: 5/350) and
* the number of artist's proofs or other editions of the image
Every certificate/biography bears the Tony Max logo.
Every Tony Max giclée 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 relavitely 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 giclées 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 giclées 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 Giclées section for a description of the giclée production process.
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