Featured Thrift find today - BIG (28" x 32.5"), vintage B. Prabha - did she have prints this big?

Not yet - had a busy week-end estate sale/garage sale (almost $1,800!) and also sold the Rucker artist proof on eBay Sun - so spent today finding a box & getting ready to pack it (after my thrift store hunt this morning!). But I will; it's next to my bed with my 2 Dali's and 2 possible Conrad Kiesel paintings on leather & it's not going up for sale any time soon!

 

I'm looking at the Prabha; especially her lips & the signature, and I'm beginning to believe it may be a print - maybe a stone lithograph?
Should I remove it from the frame or maybe just take the paper cover off the back that has the water stain? (because thank goodness it doesn't go through to the front & the art)
My fear is I won't be able to put it back!
Thanks

 

If the paper backing is damaged, so is the cardboard backing and, very possibly the interior mat (and also the work itself but below the mat line and not visible from the front). It looks like a open edition litho but you should always "look under the hood" to verify.

Putting things back together is simply with a very small investment:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=picture+...x=picture+famers,aps,109&ref=nb_sb_ss_sc_3_15

 

Thanks Mark London! The staple gun makes sense - and maybe after 10 or 20 I won't be shaking at the thought!
Ok going to look at least partially

 

Think of it as a smart investment. Keeping that crappy paper backing drives down the price compared to having a fresh piece of brown paper which can be purchased cheaply by the roll and affixed with double=stick tape.