Post #406690 by Mo-Eye on Mon, Sep 8, 2008 3:17 PM

It's not that uncommon for artists to alter an image before printing. It is almost standard for most to do some color correcting and turn up the contrast a bit for the print, as can be seen in your example. I have also seen images altered so that they fit a certain size paper. On this one it looks like there was a desire to print it at a certain width, which ended up cropping off some at the top. That is probably why the building was shorten, as opposed to having the top of it run off the image. That is also most likely why the woman in the corner's position was altered, to just better position her in the final print size.

You can also see that Shag's signature in the lower left of the original was removed - another very common thing done with prints that are going to be signed later.

None of these things should lead you to believe it is a bogus copy. People who are going to copy artwork illegally are not going to go through this much trouble to alter it.