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What to check, what to ask, and how to budget before you buy your first original painting online. Buying a painting online is a strange kind of purchase if you stop and think about it. You cannot run your hand over the canvas. It is impossible to step back 10 feet from the artwork to see how it looks in the evening light. You have only one photo, a brief description, and a bit of trust that the seller is being honest. This guide intends to help you narrow this discrepancy. It

A Pen Work Reproduction of Julia Margaret Cameron's 1864 Photograph The Three Marys, pen work reproduction on cartridge paper — 20 x 23.5 in, mounted and glass black framed. Available at KSHMEER. Some paintings hide a joke, or a private code, inside a serious subject. Few pull it off as neatly as the photograph behind this piece, a picture built entirely around a coincidence its creator refused to waste. This pen reproduction brings that quiet joke, and the reverent image bu

Darpan Sundari, contemporary interpretation by Nzanti — 17 x 12 in, acrylic on prepared board. Available at KSHMEER. There is a particular kind of stillness that comes over you when you stand in front of a woman looking into a mirror. It is one of the oldest gestures in art — vanity, self-knowledge, a private moment made public. Nzanti's piece Darpan Sundari, part of KSHMEER's collection, takes that gesture and renders it in bold, near-total silhouette: black against a smould