Urban Art Association

I don't have analytics on this, but my gut says positive influence. I would be stoked to see a print somewhere and know the original is on my wall.

I thought the idea of having a printed edition was to help raise the profile of the original. The more people that have a print would surely increase the want to own the original.

Go on then mate why, I'm genuinely interested.

It's pretty clear, because fans of a particular work would love the original, but they can't have it because either there is only one of them and it's not available, or the price tag is too high, or it's inaccessible (on a wall) . But you can in a sense own a part of it, or at least a similar impression or concept by owning a limited edition. So the original work raises the profile of the prints.

I think the reverse can sometimes also be true though, for example the exposure of a printed edition can draw attention to a particular original work, as the prints have had greater exposure. I'm sure that's happened with me before.

Edit: I just realised I haven't answered the question :/ I think it depends.

I realised after my post you were replying to the question asked in the thread and not my response my mistake sorry.

Appreciate the responses. Really interesting thoughts. I would've thought that if those who sought after the original obtained a print edition, they would no longer covet the original, thereby decreasing the value of the original. Maybe it decreases at first and if there is additional demand for the prints, then the value would then increase again? But if the audience is only limited, then the original would stay at a depressed price range. That would be my uninformed theory..

Was just going to post similar when I saw the thread. If there were an original with a limited edition print series I would think many would settle for the prints and not push up the price of the original.  But then also as called out it would depend on artist as I think some would continue to increase regardless.  Those such as Banksy who have a very limited amount of originals one would think is not impacted by this.