With WOP, acronym for Works on Paper, we mean all those works of art, old, modern or contemporary, which have as their only common denominator their support: paper (of every possible kind; from parchment, albeit improperly, as it is not paper but it is often confused with it, to the most modern and ductile cardboard, from sheets made by hand with rags, cotton or vegetable fibres, up to the most recent products of the paper industry).
Since ancient times, paper has been the main mean for transmitting information, messages, documents and missives, sometimes accompanied by more or less finished sketches and drawings, so as to add images to an otherwise simply written text. At hand in modern times and ready for use (unlike a canvas which must be prepared), since its appearance paper has been the favorite medium of artists of every school; first, as a support for their exercises, often from life, i.e. from models or even en plein-air; then, having understood and tested the practicality of the new support (light to carry and, as time passed, increasingly modest in cost), it became the favorite medium for generations of artists, up to the present day.
On paper are also manuscripts, miniatures, books, autographs, musical scores, engravings and prints of every possible technique (which are innumerable and the list would be long) and even daguerreotypes and photographs which, if worthy and by known artists, could be taken into consideration for WOP auctions.
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