Legal

Where the line sits between a legal reproduction, a copy made for study, and a forgery.

About these guides

Copyright is the question we are asked most, and the honest answer is that it depends on the painting and on what you do with the copy. These guides work through the parts that matter in practice: which works have passed into the public domain, what changes when an artist or an estate still holds the rights, why selling a copy is treated differently from owning one, and why a signature is the detail that turns a lawful reproduction into a forgery. Nothing here is legal advice, and we say so where it matters. What we can tell you is how we work. Every painting we sell is hand painted to order as a reproduction, never presented as an original, and arrives with a certificate of authenticity that names it as a reproduction.
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