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<p>[QUOTE="sunday silence, post: 10226947, member: 6808"]Well maybe but the problem with that theory and one that adds a bit of mystery is that all of them: Jeffrey Evans, Kaminski, Bill Hood and these guys all claim these are water colors. Can they all be mistaken and these are some sort of dot matrix reproductions? Im thinking that would be the most logical reason why so many of these, approx 100, have hit the market recently with some back story about being locked away somewhere for 50 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would have thought these guys would take a loup and check them out. You'd see little bits of pigment in there if they were water colors. So again mystery deepens. Did no one do their homework? Are these really water colors? or made by some computer?</p><p><br /></p><p>But yeah its a good pt about the backing. CUriously I dont recall any that showed the reverse side of these. Im not that acquainted with Arno's work but many of these that were made for Mens magazines would have extraneous notes and measurements on the margins to indicate to the printer how to print them. None of them a have that.</p><p><br /></p><p>And none of these mystery watercolors have ever been linked to an actual New YOrker cartoon or a magazine cover another troubling aspect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="sunday silence, post: 10226947, member: 6808"]Well maybe but the problem with that theory and one that adds a bit of mystery is that all of them: Jeffrey Evans, Kaminski, Bill Hood and these guys all claim these are water colors. Can they all be mistaken and these are some sort of dot matrix reproductions? Im thinking that would be the most logical reason why so many of these, approx 100, have hit the market recently with some back story about being locked away somewhere for 50 years. I would have thought these guys would take a loup and check them out. You'd see little bits of pigment in there if they were water colors. So again mystery deepens. Did no one do their homework? Are these really water colors? or made by some computer? But yeah its a good pt about the backing. CUriously I dont recall any that showed the reverse side of these. Im not that acquainted with Arno's work but many of these that were made for Mens magazines would have extraneous notes and measurements on the margins to indicate to the printer how to print them. None of them a have that. And none of these mystery watercolors have ever been linked to an actual New YOrker cartoon or a magazine cover another troubling aspect.[/QUOTE]
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