I was watching the Sharon Day video about what the "artist" Tomasz Rut said about that he had supervised the hand embellishments of the multiples...

  In between university, one summer, I worked with a company called Annex Art selling 'art' door to door...We went around in a van to rural areas, knocked on doors cold call style & sometimes sold something...

  The work was originally from a line drawing type ink thing on paper, which was then photo-mechanically reproduced, then a few for hire people would colour in different colours onto the black & white line drawing...So, the finished product was a multiple print, but hand-embellished by staff, & each was a slightly different...(they looked like an original watercolour when done, but slicker)...

  We, the summer hire, were given a base price for each print, like a hundred dollars, then we could add whatever we wanted to that & that 'add' was our take home pay...

  So you could add 75 dollars to the number you quoted somebody, & you got 75 dollars that night if it sold...We lugged around huge portfolios with a selection of prints (hand embellished), & returned to the van at a set time...

  The guys with the British accents did best...I started speaking with a lilt when I noticed this...

  But here's the thing...WE TOLD UPFRONT WHAT THE WORKS WERE, exactly, no details left out...& number two, THEY WERE REAL CHEAP...Number 3, They were NOT signed by the original artist...Nor by anybody else...The hubris of signing an embellished print is beyond me...

I mean, the machine did most of the work...(The black & white line drawing copying)...

  We treated them as really beautiful posters, with some niceties...Which they were...

  These days, I scoff at hand-embellished giclees, signed by artists...As should most art buyers...

 Personally, I think photo-mechanical prints are dangerous territory, & should be avoided at all costs by art collectors if at all possible...