kardinal

Trying to figure out if that is a print/luthograph or original watercolor painting. It is signed Babette Eddleston.

There is a protective glass and back panel. I tried to take some of the staplers and reach the paper. Touched it but cannot feel any texture. Very smooth. The paper is kind of light blue. There seems to be something like a stamp on the paper itself but cannot read it. There is info on the back about the artist. Also, a label from Turner Wall Accessory. I guess that was a home decor retail store? so I assume it was selling prints rather then original painting?

Unregistered

I have the original. Mine is unframed. You must have a print.

llb

how can you tell if it's a print

John

There are different kinds of prints. I'm not an expert and couldn't telly you anything based on photographs, and I'm not sure anyone could. I would suggest showing the original to an artist or an art dealer - someone who knows art materials.

Eric M. Jones

I was a good friend of Babette Eddleston's until her death and have many of her prints. They are hand water-colored seriagraphs. Babette's clientele was often medical offices and commercial office waiting rooms. I don't know how this happened, but that's where they often got sold. Still they're wonderful.

For the person who claims to own the original: I doubt it, but on the other hand, almost all her work was original...since they are all hand watercolored seriagraphs. (She had an assistant do watercolors too). As far as I know there were no actual commercial runs made.

Many of Babette's works have the same seriagraph but different colors. Babette once told me that you can tell a great flower painter because they show the detail of how the stem is attached to the flower. Lesser painters conceal this attachment.

By the way. I have this same signed "print" in my livingroom. It's lovely.

John

Thanks for the helpful information.