What's a Giclee (jhee-CLAY) ?

A giclee is an individually produced, high-resolution, high-fidelity reproduction done on a special large format printer. Giclees are produced from digital scans of existing artwork. These prints are created from high-resolution digital images, using the finest quality ink and 100% cotton, acid-free paper stock available, resulting in color saturation and image detail capture that exceeds other types of image reproduction. The range, or "gamut" of color for giclees is far beyond that of lithography, and details are crisper, in fact, that it produces prints, which truly capture the artist's original intent.

Evolving into the new darlings of the art world, giclee prints are coveted by collectors for their fidelity and quality, and desired by galleries because they don't have to be produced in huge quantities with their large layout of capital and storage. Even museums have realized the vast potential of this technology and have made giclee editions a permanent part of their collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco) and Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles).

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