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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Laurence Roman, post: 1231418, member: 12895&quot;]The &quot;fake&quot; image on the Calder Foundation website is a mirror image of yours, which is good news. It does not appear to be identical to yours in several other features: the teeth in your impression are white, not yellow as in the identified fake and the horse&#039;s mane doesn&#039;t correspond, if you compare them. My next comments are all speculative, so by all means disregard them;</p><p><br /></p><p>I love Calder&#039;s lithographs and have three, whose provenance is as solid as one could hope, so perhaps you&#039;ll find my musings helpful.</p><p><br /></p><p>Firstly, blue is the most unstable lithographic ink, so you needn&#039;t worry too much if shades are discrepant from one impression to the next. I believe Picasso was so aware of this colour instability, that he calculated it into the composition of his own lithographs as an aesthetic phenomenon when using blues.</p><p><br /></p><p>H.C. impressions provide the forger with a carte blanche to generate as many spurious reproductions as s/he pleases; Miro and Chagall (to name but two artists) were fastidious in having had their multiples carefully numbered so, in order to pass off a fake,&nbsp; one could only swing the trick by numerating it as an H.C. Chagall, I believe, went as far as insisting that the margins were trimmed from all but impressions from the authorised edition. This makes it easy to dismiss any Chagall lithographs &quot;signed in the image&quot; as bearing spurious signatures. That does not, ipso facto, mean the impression itself is a reproduction, only that the signature is bogus. From what I have observed, Calder&#039;s bona fide not for sale impressions tend to be labelled E.A., not H.C. This might be a warning sign that something might be awry.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rather unhelpfully, several bona fide prints by Calder are catalogued under several titles for the same image; one of mine is occasionally listed as &quot;Music Maestro Please&quot; and alternatively &quot;Phonograph.&quot; Another has 4 different listings: &quot;Flowers by the Fence,&quot; &quot;Flowers at Fence,&quot; &quot;Flowers&quot; and perhaps most unhelpfully &quot;Untitled.&quot; The only one with a consistent title is &quot;Grande A Avec Moustache.&quot; This level of inconsistency makes researching Calder&#039;s graphic works tricky.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have tried uploading the images of the works I own, in case you&#039;re interested. Notice how very different the cobalt blue is from one image to the next. I have owned &quot;Flowers&quot; and &quot;Grande A&quot; for several years and the colours are significantly different again from these photographs, which are taken from the sales catalogues.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope I haven&#039;t gone on too long; I&#039;m even boring myself!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]215323[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]215324[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]215325[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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