This ready to hang, gallery-wrapped art piece features apples in wooden baskets. Prominent colors: brown, green, tan, black, red born in Paris, France in 1944, Michael revealed natural talents as a youth. He graduated the high school of art & design in new York city, where he majored in advertising art and illustration. He continued a career in commercial art, spanning 15 years, while developing an advocation in fine art. Since 1975, Davidoff has devoted his full attention to watercolor painting and has established himself as an outstanding artist. Critics have acclaimed Davidoff for his controlled crisp style of realism. Excellent draftsmanship and brush rendering and authenticity in detail, color and depiction are hallmarks of this realist painters work. He has had his work displayed at major art exhibitions earning him numerous awards and a sizable following. Michael Davidoff resides with his family in ulster County, new York and maintains his studio at his home. Commissions are always welcomed. Giclee (jee-clay) is an advanced printmaking process for creating high quality fine art reproductions. The attainable excellence that giclee printmaking affords makes the reproduction virtually indistinguishable from the original piece. The result is wide acceptance of giclee by galleries, museums, and private collectors. Gallery wrap is a method of stretching an artist's canvas so that the canvas wraps around the sides and is secured a hidden, wooden frame. This method of stretching and preparing a canvas allows for a frameless presentation of the finished painting.