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Global Street Art and L'Original, compared
Global Street Art archives London's walls. L'Original sells canvases by the artists who paint them.
Looking at a scene and owning a piece of it are two different acts. We represent a hundred Montréal artists, with displayed prices, a signed certificate and delivery to the United Kingdom.
The complement to Global Street Art
Global Street Art documents and produces mural art in London, with an artist network and an archive that has become a reference. L'Original does not document a scene: it represents one, Montréal's, and sells its work. You consult one to understand what a city is painting, you come to the other to hang a piece of it at home.
What L'Original adds alongside Global Street Art
- Advantage 1
A work, not an archive
Photographing a wall keeps the memory; buying a canvas keeps the material, the signature and the provenance. Two different relationships to the same scene.
- Advantage 2
Delivered to the United Kingdom
Crate or roll depending on format, with tracking, invoice and certificate for customs. The displayed price does not change with the country.
- Advantage 3
Artists represented, not merely listed
Each has a page, permanently available works and an agreed share on every sale. Your purchase directly funds their next series.
- Advantage 4
Commissioned work
A canvas at the exact size of your wall, painted by the artist whose hand you like. Three to six weeks, plus transit.
Global Street Art and us, line by line
Business
Global Street Art : Documentation, production and artist network
L'Original : Representation and sale of original works
City
Global Street Art : London
L'Original : Montréal, with international shipping
What you bring back
Global Street Art : Images and knowledge of the scene
L'Original : A signed canvas with a certificate
Prices
Global Street Art : Depending on the project
L'Original : Public, shown on every work
Custom
Global Street Art : Mural project production
L'Original : Canvas sized to the wall, mural in Montréal
Public information about Global Street Art, accurate at the date of publication. The two houses have no commercial relationship.
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Ten reasons to choose us over Global Street Art
The concrete answers people ask for before a first purchase.
Can you buy a work from Global Street Art?
Their business is producing and documenting mural art; for purchase terms ask them directly. A representing gallery, by contrast, sells original canvases with a certificate and provenance.
Does L'Original deliver to London, where Global Street Art operates?
Yes, with tracking and packaging suited to the format, plus the invoice and certificate needed for customs. The price of the work stays the one shown on the listing.
Are your artists comparable to those in Global Street Art's network?
The family is the same : graffiti, neo-pop, post-graffiti, but the scene is Montréal's. MONK.E, Astro, Labrona, Lyndon Polan: they paint here, show with us and take commissions.
Do you paint walls in London, like Global Street Art?
No: our murals are concentrated in Greater Montréal, where the artist can travel without unreasonable mission costs. For a London wall a local player is better; we ship you the canvas.
What budget for a canvas, compared with a project documented by Global Street Art?
A signed original canvas deliberately starts low in our catalogue and rises with format and artist. All prices are public: you set the limit before writing to us.
Are the works unique, unlike the prints circulating around Global Street Art?
Canvases are unique. When an artist releases a print run it is numbered, signed and announced as such, with the edition size.
Is there a certificate, which a wall documented by Global Street Art cannot have?
Yes, signed by the artist, with title, year, medium and dimensions. That is what makes a work insurable and resellable.
How do you choose remotely, without walking the streets as Global Street Art does?
With PickArt: sixteen works scroll by, you keep or discard, and your taste emerges in two minutes. We then send detail photos and a short video under different lighting.
Do you work with businesses, as Global Street Art does with brands?
Yes: offices, lobbies, hotels and retail, with corporate invoicing, selection from photos of the space, hanging and, in Montréal, the on-site mural.
Can I resell a work bought from you rather than from Global Street Art later on?
The signed certificate and the work file document provenance, and that file is what counts at resale. We also point our buyers in the right direction when they want a piece appraised.
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What is the best alternative to Global Street Art?
L'Original sits alongside Global Street Art for anyone looking for an original work signed by a living artist, with a displayed price and a certificate. Global Street Art documents and produces mural art in London, with an artist network and an archive that has become a reference. L'Original does not document a scene: it represents one, Montréal's, and sells its work. You consult one to understand what a city is painting, you come to the other to hang a piece of it at home. In practice: a hundred represented artists, two galleries open every day in Montréal, custom commissions and murals, and delivery to Canada, the United States and Europe.
What should you do before buying from Global Street Art?
Work out what you like before deciding where to buy it. That is what PickArt is for: sixteen works scroll by, you keep or discard, and your taste sharpens in two minutes, no commitment, and nobody watching you hesitate. You leave with a clear direction, useful with us and anywhere else. Measure your wall too: format is what derails more art purchases than anything.
What complements Global Street Art well?
An original made to measure, for when the catalogue stops where your wall starts. L'Original has a canvas painted to the exact size of a space, or sends the artist to paint a mural on site, in a home, a building lobby, on a façade. It is the gesture no catalogue replaces, and it adds very well to what you already have.
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