Al Taliaferro Facsimile "Two Additional Prints (1958)" w/o Passepartout

The Donald Duck Strips by Al Taliaferro are famous for their short, concise wit. No other artist managed to capture a brilliant gag in three to four pictures a day - with few words, often even without any text! Of the few surviving prints Edition 313 chose one Daily from each of Talia­ferro’s six years of work in an exclusive series and reproduced it in a 1:1 format on authentic cardboard.

In order to reproduce the originals faithfully, special processes were used, of which 5-colour printing and foil lamination give the Fak­similes of Edition 313 their unique character.
5-colour printing

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The original drawings are marked with sketches and notes, kept in fine, mostly blue coloured pencil strokes, for which the repro­cameras of that time were 'blind'. In newspaper printing they were therefore not visible. During the reproduction of the printed originals they should be preserved (as well as the aging and yellowing of the original cardboard), because it is precisely here that Talia­ferro's can be seen. All Fak­similes were therefore produced in 5-colour printing, whereby in addition to the four colours cyan, magenta, yellow and black, a specially mixed paper tone as the fifth colour is applied to the entire surface.
Foil lamination Taliaferro applied foil printed with a halftone screen to the areas that were to appear 'grey' in newspaper printing. In addition to those completely printed with halftone, he also had half printed films at his disposal. This made it possible for him to cut and assemble even the smallest areas. He simply took a larger piece of which the required area had the grid and the rest was transhy;parent. In newspaper reproduction, only the screen areas were captured, while the trans­parent film remained invisible. By reducing the original 50cm wide drawing to newspaper width for printing, the halftones in the print appeared as a relatively closed grey area.
For the facsimile post-printing of the print templates for which Taliaferro had worked with these screens ("Art Exhibit", "Car Wash", "Staircase", "Two Additional Prints"), the film snippets present on the original were individually captured and masked on a separate film. This made it possible for the film sections to be mechanically laminated to the print on the masked surfaces with hot foil embossing in accordance with the original.

Due to the reproduction methods used, the facsimiles can hardly be distinguished from the original. For identification purposes, they are embossed with a blind of Edition 313 and numbered by hand. All facsimiles are inlaid in a passe­partout. The edition is limited to 500 copies each.

Without passepartout. Special price! Shipping: slightly rolled.