Aron Wiesenfeld Plated Print

[abracadabra1*]

I need some advice on listing a very early and rare Aron Wiesenfeld limited edition 6/15 numbered and signed by hand in pencil.  It is just trees in a foggy environment.  I can see the impression of the plate . I am guessing that makes it an etching perhaps from a plate using acid bath, but I don't know much about the actual process.

I also haven't really got an idea of how much to list it for and whether it is better to try an auction with a reserve amount. I usually create listings as buy it now but I just don't know a reasonable price and don't want go low or too high and have it sit.

I took some quick snaps attached- they are not the best but you should get the idea.

Thank you!

[melda58]

There is a wealth of information on this artist available online (some on eBay) including asking and sold prices of his original etchings.   Yours is as you say, rather early in his career and doesn't have those compelling human themes and figures found in his other work, but you could still use these prices as a guide to pricing your print.   If it were mine I would probably use the auction option. His website shows his work www.aronwiesenfeld.com/  catalogued by year, but I don't see yours among the pre-2003 work shown.  

Rita

[smiling66]

There is a contact email address on his website.

https://www.aronwiesenfeld.com/contact

You can send your questions and attach pictures.

[argon38]

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@abracadabra1* wrote:

I also haven't really got an idea of how much to list it for and whether it is better to try an auction with a reserve amount.

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If you go down the auction route then I think you should steer clear of reserves, as buyers hate them. Start the auction at the minimum price you would be content for it to go for. Bear in mind that with an auction you are gambling that the right people will see the listing at the right time. That's hard to guarantee unless you have a lot of people following your listings. A fixed price approach (with Buy it Now option) might bring in a better deal in the longer term. But there are pros and cons to both strategies - it basically comes down to what you prefer.