"LEOPARD", PANTHERA PARDUS, BY GUY COHELEACH, 1970, HAND-SIGNED AND NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION, #134/650, 31-1/2 x 25" OFFSET LITHOGRAPH, WITH A 28 x 21" IMAGE AREA, IN NEARLY PRISTINE MINT CONDITION. ALSO INCLUDED IS AN IMAGE OF THE ORIGINAL WHOLESALE PURCHASE RECEIPT FROM THEIR DISTRIBUTOR, CHRISMAN WILDLIFE ART, TO AUTHENTICATE THE PRINT.
INCORRECTLY LABELED "FELIS PARDUS" UNDER THE TITLE, THE ACTUAL GENOMIC NAME IS "PANTHERA PARDUS".
PLEASE NOTICE THE RICH, DEEP, LUSTROUS COLORS IN OUR PRINT-- AND COMPARE WITH THE MUTED, FADED COLORS IN THE PRINTS OF THE COMPETITION!
PART OF THE FRAME HOUSE GALLERY SERIES (THIS IS PLATE XII OF ONE SERIES) OF LIMITED EDITION GUY COHELEACH WILDLIFE PRINTS-- MANY OTHERS OF WHICH WE ALSO CARRY, AS WELL AS NAUTICAL, BIBLICAL, FANTASY AND WESTERN LIMITED EDITION PRINTS FROM THEM AND FROM SEVERAL OTHER PUBLISHERS.
Purchased new from the distributor in 1977 at wholesale, along with several others, and never framed or displayed and stored in our darkened warehouse since, the print is still in very nearly PRISTINE MINT condition, on its Original creamy ivory white paper, and with its original Bright, Lustrous, completely UN-faded colors. The only very slight defects keeping it from being otherwise perfect are a small (about the size of a dime) edge scrape
on the BACK side (does not show on the front) and a few minor dings near the right and left edges (which do not show much on the front)-- nearly all of which can be easily matted out anyway.
NOTE: THIS IS ONE OF COHELEACH'S EARLIEST, BEST AND RAREST PRINTS-- OVER FIFTY (50) YEARS OLD, AND IN NEARLY PRISTINE MINT CONDITION.
PLEASE EXCUSE THE SLIGHT GLARE FROM THE LIGHTING IN THE UPPER LEFT OF SOME OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS, WHICH ALSO MAKES THER REST OF THE PHOTO SEEM SLIGHTLY DARKER. THE PRINT IS STILL IN PRISTINE MINT CONDITION WITH ITS ORIGINAL CREAMY IVORY COLORED PAPER. OUR PRINTS, WHILE MAYBE PRICED A BIT HIGHER, HAVE NEVER BEEN FRAMED OR EXPOSED TO LIGHT, HAVING BEEN STORED IN OUR DARKENED WAREHOUSE THE ENTIRE TIME-- OVER FOUR (4) DECADES-- SO, UNLIKE PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERS, OURS ARE PRISTINE NEW, NEVER FRAMED OR DISPLAYED, NEARLY PERFECTLY MINT CONDITION AND TOTALLY UN-FADED !
We have been in the business for over fifty (50) years-- and over forty (40) in the same Lansing, Michigan location-- with a sterling reputation of honesty, integrity, and customer service. Please feel free to check us out under our original, ongoing, business name: FAIRFAX PRINTS LTD. (don't forget the "Ltd" if searching).
We also carry limited and open edition prints, and sculpture, by Frank Frazetta, David Shepherd, Paul Calle, Frank McCarthy, John Clymer, Bev Dolittle, Bob McGinnis, Richard Luce, Tom Lovell, James Bama, Don Crowley, Roger Cooke, Robert Summers, Jeff Barson, Louis Icart, Karl Bang, James Gurney, Frederick Hart, Louis Paul Jonas, Salvador Dali, H. R. Giger, Antoine Louis Barye, Norman Lindsay, Alan Hunt, Charles Frace, Guy Coheleach, Peter Parnall, Alan Shepard, Simon Combes, Ron Frederick, Stephen Lyman, John Schoenherr, Mort Solberg, John Seerey-Lester, John Pitre and many others.
PLEASE NOTE: Although new to eBay, Fairfax Collectables has been in business for over fifty (50) years in the collectible market-- both Retail and Wholesale. As Fairfax Prints and Fairfax Animation, we also deal in fantasy art prints and posters, and expensive Animation Art-- which we auction in all the major auction houses: Sothebys, Christies, Heritage, RR, and Bonhams.
Please feel free to contact them to verify our honesty, veracity and longevity, and assure yourself of our prompt and impeccable service.
Please also check out our wide assortment of other figurines and merchandise in our eBay webstore-- also the last, or nearly the last of their type we have available. We only have one, and occasionally two, examples of each of the figures we offer.