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<p>[QUOTE="User 67, post: 967, member: 67"]<font face="Verdana">Right on the matting, in fact you can see where the artwork has preserved the mat, in other words balanced the acid, meaning the artwork will have mat burn.</font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Verdana">For a buck each, these are a find. If you are just going to flip them, I would keep the frames and mat and let the new owner deal with it.</font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Verdana">I wouldn't call them 'folk' art, that always sounds pretentious when it isn't real folk art or naive. This is hobby art, or weekend art done by a graphic artist. I would leave it up to the buyer to decide if it's folk or not. I mean, someone searching for 'folk art' isn't looking for this, and someone looking for wall art won't be impressed by the folk art title. I like Bev's description.</font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Verdana">"Charming Original Signed Artist's Pencil Drawing by Josef Gött, 1946"</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="User 67, post: 967, member: 67"][FONT=Verdana]Right on the matting, in fact you can see where the artwork has preserved the mat, in other words balanced the acid, meaning the artwork will have mat burn. For a buck each, these are a find. If you are just going to flip them, I would keep the frames and mat and let the new owner deal with it. I wouldn't call them 'folk' art, that always sounds pretentious when it isn't real folk art or naive. This is hobby art, or weekend art done by a graphic artist. I would leave it up to the buyer to decide if it's folk or not. I mean, someone searching for 'folk art' isn't looking for this, and someone looking for wall art won't be impressed by the folk art title. I like Bev's description. "Charming Original Signed Artist's Pencil Drawing by Josef Gött, 1946"[/FONT][/QUOTE]
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