Dining In Paris A MINT Mounted Beryl Cook HAND SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION, Full Colour Lithographic Print

Bristol: Alexander Gallery Publications Ltd. ,. As New with no dust jacket. 2001. Signed Limited Edition. Soft. An As New, MINT, mounted Beryl Cook HAND SIGNED LIMITED EDITION Full Colour Lithographic Print = "Dining in Paris". Numbered 534/650. Image size 18" x 16". 27in x 24in inclusive of mount. This print is signed and numbered by the artist - the late lamented and wonderfully talented Beryl Cook (1926-2008). Double mounted with inner gold surround mount. Shrink wrapped as Issued in 2001. Untouched since. Print Run Only 650 Copies Worldwide. Beryl said = “We couldn’t get into The Train Bleu the first night we arrived in Paris, so we booked to come back the following evening. As we walked in admiring the ornate interior and dodging the waiters, all of whom are terribly proud of their restaurant, my eye was immediately drawn to a couple and their huge plate of snails. Every now and then the man offered one to their poodle quietly sat next to him who would eagerly devour the delicacy, enjoying every morsel. How very French! ” . Beryl first came to national prominence in February 1976 when the Sunday Times published a major article about her and her paintings. Within days the Alexander Gallery were meeting her in Plymouth and they subsequently published her first signed limited edition, The Four Hungry Cats, in 1977. To date 48 limited edition Litho prints of Beryl’s paintings have been published by The Alexander Gallery, 40 as Signed Limited Editions and 8 as Posthumous Unsigned Limited Editions. All 48 prints are exact reproductions of the original paintings and are printed to the highest possible standard on heavyweight paper. All the prints bear either a pencilled edition number or in the case of the earlier editions, a number code. The latter can be found in the bottom left hand corner, below the colour surface alongside the embossed stamp of The Fine Art Trade Guild, the body responsible for approving and monitoring the publication of limited edition prints. Their coded numbering system acted rather like a hallmark on silver, authenticating the print and the edition number and removing the need for paper certificates. The code begins with AAA to represent 001 from the edition and using ten letters of the alphabet continues to KEL which represents the final print from an 850 edition. The FATG stamping system was used until 1995 when, in common with many other publishers, the Alexander Gallery began to use their own publishers stamp and a pencilled edition number in the bottom left hand corner. Beryl’s signature appears in the bottom right hand corner of all signed prints. As this is a 2001 issue, the stamping in this case is the latter format with pencilled numbering. Edition sizes have varied over the years. Initially the editions were 750; this was raised in 1982 to 850 and then reduced in 1994 to 650. With the mount this print is overweight and may require extra postage for International buyers only, depending on your location. Please ask if unsure. GIFT QUALITY. See Images ; Elephant Folio 23" tall .