Crying Girl from 1963 – made me gulp.If that were a painting (it was described simply as ‘a pioneering work’) it would be worth $100 million and definitely worth traveling to Gloucestershire to gawp at.
But when I looked it up, I discovered there were no Lichtenstein paintings of that description – only a printed lithograph.Prints, mostly made in editions, are often thought of as a poor man’s entry point into the art market, which can be true.
But some can fetch a mint...so much so that fakes, in the form of ever more ingenious photomechanical reproductions with false signatures, litter the market.It may come as no surprise that the most expensive print ever sold at auction is by Picasso.
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