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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 400358, member: 8267&quot;]I know you sometimes find interesting information if you take a work out of its frame, but there are also risks, especially with one as big as this seems to be. Do you have a large, very clean surface to work on? It is <u>really</u> hard to keep dust out once you open it, and you spend hours chasing down the specks that appear when you close it up again. The bottom edge of the artwork (shown in your photo of the signature) almost looks like it is painted/printed on a heavy paper. Can you tell if that is right? If so, can you tell if the glass/plexi actually touches the paper, or is there a mat that creates some space between the art and the glass? Sometimes large floppy things are framed as a pressure mount, where the glass, artwork and backing board are a tight sandwich. It might be difficult to get things realigned if you open it up. It has also become fairly common practice in contemporary framing to transfer any significant information to the back of the frame, so that people don&#039;t have to go through all this to see if there is anything. Other than getting a better photo of the signature, there may not be much to gain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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