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<p>[QUOTE="User 67, post: 8069, member: 67"]Wegteuas?</p><p>Niegtleuas?</p><p><br /></p><p>You might check artist registries for 1940s for names with We or Nie, I'd look for Calif. and Mex artists or artists working in Mexico.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a nice little etching. The mat is acid, and severely burned the print. Have you opened it up to see if there is any additional stamps or info inside. it needs to be rematted, at any rate. The burn marks really reduce the value of this print. While the quality is nice, it does look a bit like tourist art, and even if made by a regional artist of reknown, those burn marks will diminish it's value considerably. How do you remat it to cover the burns? You don't. How do you remove the burns? Costly restoration that may not be worth it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I love how the blue color was applied, but I can't determine the method. Looks like a stone litho, or a unique water color technique of the artists, possibly a second etching? That may be of interest to the collector.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="User 67, post: 8069, member: 67"]Wegteuas? Niegtleuas? You might check artist registries for 1940s for names with We or Nie, I'd look for Calif. and Mex artists or artists working in Mexico. It is a nice little etching. The mat is acid, and severely burned the print. Have you opened it up to see if there is any additional stamps or info inside. it needs to be rematted, at any rate. The burn marks really reduce the value of this print. While the quality is nice, it does look a bit like tourist art, and even if made by a regional artist of reknown, those burn marks will diminish it's value considerably. How do you remat it to cover the burns? You don't. How do you remove the burns? Costly restoration that may not be worth it. I love how the blue color was applied, but I can't determine the method. Looks like a stone litho, or a unique water color technique of the artists, possibly a second etching? That may be of interest to the collector.[/QUOTE]
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