GICLEE EXPLANATION:

(Pronounced, jhee'clay, from French verb gicler - to squirt)

"Giclée" is a digital printmaking technology with great advantages in beauty, quality and durability. The process can be used to print art that has been digitalized from the original, a transparency, photography or from original digital artwork. The digital files are worked using sophisticated graphics software to fine-tune the images. They are then translated into a format usable by digital printers in preparation for the print files.

Although prints can be made on paper, these Giclees have been printed on canvas so that they may be framed as oil paintings, without glass.

The Giclees at the Silent Auction have been created directly from transparicies I made from the original paintings when I was an art dealer back in the 1960's. The are from my private collection and I only had one of each made of the large sizes.

A Giclee printer in action (photo courtesy of artistswoods.com)