The Park West Collection features works in various media, created by master printers “after” Miro. "After" is an interpretation in a graphic media of a painting, drawing or other source artwork already in existence.

Before the advent of photography, images of famous paintings were copied by hand by graphic artists in the form of engravings, etchings or lithographs so that the awareness of these paintings could be spread. The Spanish master, Francisco Goya, began his career as a copyist in engraving, of paintings for the King of Spain. These prints became known as “Afters” as they were created from and “after” existing artworks.

Over the centuries this practice continued with master works by Renoir, Cezanne, Manet, Van Gogh, Picasso, Braque and others being interpreted into aquatints, pochoirs (a stencil process akin to the serigraph) and lithographs by printmaking artisans such as Jacques Villon, Henri Deschamps and Charles Sorlier who created some of Chagall’s most sought-after lithograph editions. Major museums like the Louvre and the Picasso Museum in Barcelona published “After” editions of works contained in their collections.

Today, graphic works "after" these masters often fetch higher prices than works created independently from an already existing artwork, typically due to their color, scale and quality of imagery.

In today’s art world, the majority of graphic editions created are derived from existing works of art, interpreted by artisans (known as “chromists”) and created under the control and supervision of the artist who signifies acceptance and approval by hand-signing each example.