Dog Mom Art · Limited Edition
THE REGENT
THE REGENT
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Printed and inspected to order · Insured worldwide delivery, fully tracked · 14 days to return
The Regent occupies the unstable territory between portraiture and ceremonial object. The French Bulldog is almost subsumed by a vocabulary of copper, rust and burnished metal, its body reorganised into breastplate, collar and pauldron until anatomy and ornament become difficult to separate. The circular lenses deny the viewer access to the eyes, while the pale ground removes any suggestion of place. What remains is presence: frontal, composed and deliberately inaccessible.
The work is less concerned with costume than with the architecture of authority. Metal is treated not as embellishment but as a second skin; decoration accumulates until it ceases to decorate and begins instead to prescribe character. The face, by contrast, is held in near-shadow, producing a tension between the elaborate visibility of the body and the refusal of the subject itself to be fully read.
At monumental scale, The Regent becomes less an image than an encounter — a study in surface, status and the strange seriousness with which identity is constructed.
Issued in an edition of twenty-five, each impression individually numbered and accompanied by a hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity.
Collection: The Collector's Series
Orientation: Portrait
Subject: French Bulldog
Edition: Limited Edition of 25
Scale
Understand the size before you decide.
The atelier's scales, drawn to true relative proportion against a standing figure. Available scales vary by work — those offered for this piece are listed in the selector above.
30 × 45 cm
50 × 70 cm
60 × 90 cm
70 × 100 cm
170 cm
Specification
| Medium | Archival pigment print on 310gsm 100% cotton rag |
|---|---|
| Scales offered | As listed in the selector above |
| Edition | Strictly limited, hand-numbered, retired on completion |
| Presentation | Supplied unframed, with a retained border for float-mounting |
| Certificate | Cotton-rag Certificate of Authenticity, blind embossed, signed |
| Production | Printed and inspected to order |
Details
Savoir-Faire
Archival pigment print on 310gsm 100% cotton rag — acid-free, lignin-free, mould-made, with a natural white surface and a subtle vellum tooth that holds fine detail without introducing gloss. Pigment inks are rated in excess of one hundred years under museum display conditions, and each edition is proofed against a reference print before the run is released.
A generous border is retained on all four edges so the sheet can be float-mounted without trimming.
Framing
Works are supplied unframed, with the full border retained, so that a framer can float-mount the sheet without cutting into it. The atelier recommends solid blackened oak with a 30 mm face, hand-mitred at the corner, behind 99% UV-filtering acrylic — lighter than glass, safer in transit, and materially better for the work over time.
Bespoke framing can be arranged through the advisory service.
Edition & Provenance
Every work is issued in a strictly limited edition — the size of which is stated on this page — and is hand-numbered in the lower margin. Each impression is accompanied by a cotton-rag Certificate of Authenticity carrying a blind embossed seal, recording the title, scale, edition position and date of issue. Once an edition is complete it is retired permanently and is not reprinted at that scale.
Delivery & Packaging
Insured worldwide delivery, fully tracked. Works travel wrapped in pH-neutral archival glassine inside a rigid charcoal tube with flush end caps, or in a bespoke rigid flat case at the larger scales. Every consignment is insured for its full acquisition value in transit.
Returns
A work may be returned within 14 days of receipt, unmarked and in its original archival packaging, with the Certificate of Authenticity returned alongside it. Return carriage is borne by the collector except where the work arrived damaged or was incorrectly supplied. Refunds are issued within 5 working days of inspection.