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It’s a problem that has been going on almost as long as there has been an art market – the question of how to identify works of art that are presented as being by a particular artist, but are in fact fakes, and, once they are identified, what to do with them. It may be a case of straight reproduction – creating a version of a painting known to be by a well-known artist and trying to pass it off as the famous work – or a more complex forgery, creating a work in the way so similar to the style of the artist that it is difficult to be certain whether it could have been by them.Even with the best of modern technology and the benefit of the experts in the field, this is something that remains a serious issue in the art world – an important one, because [...]
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