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Painted Poem: Whirl and Twirl and Dance
🎨 Unique Work
Mark: 1/1 One Painted Poem. One object.
A Unique Work is the single issued version of that composition on canvas or panel. It is not pulled from a numbered run and it does not share a retired file with any other impression. The Certificate of Authenticity records title, year, medium, size, and provenance.
Quoted individually. Not an edition.
From $28,000+ Quoted by size and surface.
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Painted Poem: No Finer Love
🎨 Artist's Proof
Mark: A/P · outside the numbered run
An Artist’s Proof is a finished impression reserved for the artist and issued beside the edition, not inside it. Manufacture matches the edition: archival pigment inks (giclée) on the same canvas or cotton rag. Quantity is stated and kept within about ten percent of the numbered run.
Proofs are signed by E. Laurence Bake and released by invitation through the Trade Desk. They are not listed as open stock.
From $4,800+ By size. Invitation.
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Painted Poem: ART 101
🎨 Museum Canvas Edition
Mark: numbered fraction, by size
A limited edition of the Painted Poem, printed as a giclée with archival pigment inks on heavyweight, acid-free cotton or cotton-blend canvas, then finished with UV-protective layers and presented gallery-wrapped. Issued at statement scale for specified interiors.
The run is written per size. A 36-inch canvas and a 48-inch canvas are two editions, not one pool. When that size is complete, the file is retired. Each impression is signed and numbered. Certificate of Authenticity, care note, and credit line travel with the object.
From $4,000+ By size.
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Painted Poem: I Have a Dream
🎨 Archival Edition
Mark: numbered fraction, by size
A limited-edition giclée of the Painted Poem on acid-free, lignin-free 100 percent cotton rag, printed with archival pigment inks. Made for a frame under glazing — glass or acrylic in front of the sheet.
Edition size is fixed per title and recorded on the Certificate of Authenticity. The file is retired when the run is complete. Signed and numbered by E. Laurence Bake.
From $2,000+ By size
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Painted Poem: Decision Made
🎨 Named Release
Mark: its own stated run
A titled, dated issue. Patron, Foundation, or collaboration that does not enlarge an existing run. If the impression is printed, it is a giclée in archival pigment inks on the substrate named on the spec sheet. Enhancements, if any, are written there: inscription, remarque, alternate substrate, or presentation.
Separate object. Separate certificate. Announced to the Trade Desk and to patrons first.
From $6,000+ By format.
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Painted Poem: Peace
🎨 Public Edition
Open Edition Print
Mark: unnumbered · uncapped
A public giclée of the Painted Poem issued without a cap. Printed with pigment inks on paper, sized for the room, and sold from the public collection. It is not numbered as a fraction. It does not close. It does not share a Certificate of Authenticity with a limited edition of the same title.
Specify it as an Open Edition. Do not write 1/100 on it. Do not call it Museum Canvas.
From $199+ By size.
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📜 The Poet's Hanging Scrolls
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Mark: numbered fraction
The Painted Poem as a hanging scroll. One vertical field, not a framed rectangle. Printed as a giclée with archival pigment inks on cotton rag or an archival silk-like substrate, then mounted with traditional end rods.
Each scroll is signed and numbered. Edition size is stated per title. A hanging note and Certificate of Authenticity are issued with the object.
From $3,500+ By height and substrate.
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📜 Poet's Scrolls ~ Manuscripts
Premium Archival Paper
Mark: numbered fraction
The poem as object, not a picture of the poem. The text is set in column on archival cotton rag, printed with fade-resistant pigment inks, and rolled on protective end rods. Issued as a limited literary object, signed and numbered by E. Laurence Bake.
Displayed hung or presented in a case. The Certificate of Authenticity records title, edition, substrate, and care.
From $1,800+
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🎨 Studio Commission
Build to order. After an approved brief.
A Painted Poem made to the collector’s specification. Size, format, substrate, and finish are written in the spec pack before work begins. The studio executes under the artist’s supervision. The result is either a Unique Work (1/1) or a short stated run. Closed editions of the same title are not reopened. A commission does not become extra numbers on an edition that has already been issued.
Work starts on a fifty percent deposit. Lead time and installation are quoted with the object.
Materials
Named on the spec pack for that order.
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Museum canvas — heavyweight, acid-free cotton or cotton-blend, gallery-wrapped
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Cotton rag — acid-free, lignin-free 100 percent cotton paper, for a frame under glazing
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Scroll — archival cotton rag or silk-like substrate, mounted with end rods
Printed as a giclée with archival pigment inks, unless the brief is for a unique painted surface. UV-protective finish where the substrate allows.
Issue:
Signed by E. Laurence Bake. If the object is a run, it is numbered and the count is stated on the certificate.
If it is unique, it is marked 1/1.
The Certificate of Authenticity records title, artist, year, medium,
substrate, size, edition mark, the brief date, and any agreed personalization (inscription or presentation). Purchase conveys the physical object and the certificate. It does not convey copyright in the image or the poem.
Quoted. From $12,000+