Living Works Of Art In The Rice Paddies Of Japan

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Out-Faking The Fakers: Chinese Librarian Proud Of Forged Masters

Article by: Austin Ramzy

Paintings on preview for an auction in Hong Kong including works by Zhang Daqian (second from right) and Qi Baishi (left, second from left and third from left). Xiao Yuan said he copied paintings by both masters.Credit Adam Dean for The New York Times

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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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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Picasso Portrait Fetches $52 Million

LONDON — Pablo Picasso’s “Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto,” a work from the painter’s Blue Period, has sold for nearly 35 million pounds [$52 million] at a London auction.

The winning bid of 34,761,250 pounds, from an anonymous bidder at an auction at Christie’s Wednesday night, was in the middle of the estimated sale price of 30 million pounds to 40 million pounds, the auctioneer said.

One of Claude Monet’s famous “Water Lilies” paintings — “Nympheas,” a work from 1906 — failed to sell. It had been expected to fetch up to 40 million pounds. read more...

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