Mark Ryden Snow Yak Show Portfolio

[virtu]

Info from Porterhouse below

www.porterhouseart.com/product_p/p081.htm


The Snow Yak Show Print Portfolio (Spectaculum Poefagorum Nivium)

$4750

This very special portfolio of museum-quality, digital pigment ink prints features all eight paintings and two drawings from Mark Ryden's 2009 solo exhibition at the Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. The 10 images have been meticulously printed on the finest archival print paper, placed inside individual Kozo paper folders and presented in a finely handmade clam shell box. Each 13-7/8" x 10-7/8" print is numbered and hand-signed by the artist. Each portfolio comes with a full-color, embossed, signed and numbered title print and a letterpressed colophon.

Portfolio Size: 15-1/8" x 11-7/8" x 1-1/2"
Print Size: 13-7/8" x 10-7/8"
Edition Size: 50
Porterhouse Item Number: P081

Available on Wednesday, November 24, 2010, at 8:00 a.m. PST.



www.porterhouseart.com/product_p/p081.htm

[oldfartatplay]

I got the email about this a short while ago. I'm sure they are beautiful prints but I was a bit surprised at the price.
I might purchase the book ($350)
From the email

The special edition of the Snow Yak Show book features pieces from Mark Ryden's 2009 solo exhibition at the Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo, Japan.

Each signed and numbered special edition book comes in a handmade, two-piece box covered in fine book cloth. The edition also comes with a bookmark and a special 14-1/2" x 11" signed and numbered digital pigment ink print.

Book Size: 11-1/8" x 14-3/4"
Hardcover: 68 pages
Print Size: 14-1/2" x 11"
Edition Size: 250
Porterhouse Item Number: P087

[amin]

if the special edition prints are giclees that is way way over priced.

[oldfartatplay]

Digital Ink Print is giclee.
The Micro Portfolio 3 Bunnies and Bees - Special Edition was a similar item.
It contained 14 prints, was an edition of 100 and cost $500.
When I first saw $4750 I thought it might be a typo, maybe $750?
Wishful thinking.

[svenman]

ryden is definitely upper tier, but that 4750 price is crazy.
he's outpricing his market with that, but it will probably sell out in a snap anyway.

[panditha676]

Well the portfolio is very much like the spectaculum carnis portfolio that was sold back in 1998 for the meat show, in fact its the exact one with the diffrent paintings and the fact that the colopon and all the prints are signed and numbered, which i belive is the reason its more. i thinkthe bunnies and bees one wasnt that much more because it wasnt really a hand made box and the prints were not glicees

but yeah $4750 is pretty steep

[grotesqueanimal]

The portfolio is way overpriced, but I am sure this will sell out fast. I am not too excited about the images from this show either, so it is an easy decision not going into debt for this.
I'll go for the book, as I can still justify that purchase. At least it has a print, unlike the Tree Show ltd. ed. where I am still kicking myself for buying this at the original price when it came out.

I also find it nice that they were trying to create a Latin word for Snow Yak (pretty sure they did not have one in good ol' Rome).

[grotesqueanimal]

It's up!

edit: Got mine, but I think they should reconsider their shipping charges to international buyers (like other sellers out there as well). 81$ for shipping the book is insane (although I must admit they always do a very nice packing job), and I realized the shipping charges the second I hit the "submit order" button, otherwise I'd probably thought this over (the boyfriend just said I wouldn't, and I am afraid he's right )

[oldfartatplay]

I'm going to pass on the book because I already have the $28 one.

[panditha676]

Nov 24, 2010 8:13:07 GMT -8 oldfartatplay said:

I'm going to pass on the book because I already have the $28 one.

yeah same here, its not as good as the fushigi or the tree show one was, yeah the tree show did not have a print but was much nicer IMHO that and the print itself is well meh.

The tree show special edition, i pretty much gave away most of the stuff aside from the cards and the pin. i had the pennent and the pencil from before. The book and the case was what i cared about the most as it was signed and i missed my chance to go to the signing.


if the price on the print portfolio was cheaper id go for it, i have a feeling it will be up for quite some time like the tree show special edition as will the snow yak show one.

[grotesqueanimal]

I am probably the only freak who bought this. I even got the shipping confirmation already!

[panditha676]

eh ill just keep saiving for an original.