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A librarian who
admitted to a court this week that he substituted his own paintings for
works by Chinese masters, and then sold the originals at auction,
insisted he was not the only one to carry out such fraud. He was simply
the best at it.
Xiao Yuan, the author
of several books on Chinese art and a former librarian at the Guangzhou
Academy of Fine Arts, said he came up with the scheme when he began a
project to digitize the school’s collection in 2003 and noticed that
many originals had been replaced with fakes.
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