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Can't afford a whole artwork? How about a fragment?

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Left is the original, right is the fragment.After the flooring is laid, the walls are painted and the furniture is repositioned at the end of a remodel, what's left? Accessorizing.

For those of us with original artwork taste but poster budgets, here's an idea: fragments of larger works, printed, numbered and signed by the artist, costing $63 each plus $9 shipping, from a gallery in Ireland.

The fragments, like the one shown above right, are typically 8 by 10 inches or 9 by 11 inches, and are printed on archival paper. (The larger piece, on the left, is 11 by 19 inches and costs $900.)

The creator of these particular pieces, Susan Kaprov, lives in New York City. Her works are in the permanent collections of such museums as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Yale University Art Gallery and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others.

Kaprov and other artists have taken part in this unique initiative by the Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery in Cork.

According to Shaughnessy, "It's a great way to start a collection, to remodel or redecorate the home or to give to younger people to help them start a collection and enrich their appreciation of art."

And, Shaughnessy adds: "We are adding work all the time, two or three pieces a week."

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Kathy Price-Robinson has written about remodeling for 17 years, focusing both on the process of home improvement, as well as the product. She writes for both consumer and contractor magazines, and her award-winning series, Pardon Our Dust, has appeared in the print edition of the Real Estate section of The Times since 1997. This blog is a spin-off of that column. Kathy lives in a house with good bones and a lot of potential, and shares her life with one husband, one dog, two horses and three quite exceptional stepdaughters.

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