Can Paintings Be Successfully Copied?
Monday, September 11, 2000
"IF LOOKS COULD KILL"
The saying goes: "if looks could kill", but does this apply to paintings? One navy doctor, a friend of artist Djoko Pekik, bought a painting for Rp5 million. The painting was alleged to be a Pekik (Indonesia’s most expensive painter, whose works have fetched up to Rp1 billion) original. Unfortunately upon seeing the photo, Djoko Pekik informed his friend that the painting was a fake. As a result the doctor became emoti
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