At the start of 1520’s, Pope Climent VIII desired to gift Raphael’s masterpiece to margrave of Mantua, Federico Gonzaga. Although very soon he understood that he didn’t want present this masterpiece away. He made up his mind to make a trick. He ordered the dublicate of the masterpiece from Andrea del Sarto.
One of the most well known tricks of falsification happened in Renaissance era. Unfamiliar at that moment, youthful Michelangelo hidden his statue “Sleeping Cupid” in the ground. Later on, statue had been uncovered and sold to Cardinal Raphael Riario as an antique one, for 2 hundred ducats.
Vincent van Gogh’s masterpiece “Sunflowers” is considered to be the most amuzing dodge. Vincent has made around 10 types of a work “Sunflowers”, although one he thought to be the most beautiful. This work has been sold at Kristis auction for 40 million dollars. Eventually, it has turned out to be a fake. Such decision was created by the Italian critics. It was obvious from Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin’s letters. Gauguin liked Vincent’s work very much and he persuaded Vincent to give it to him for a short period of time, to look at it at his workshop. After Van Gogh’s death one more masterpiece (11th) surfaced. As it appeared to be later, Gauguin made a copy. And his pal Claude-Emil Shaffeneker claimed it to be the original. Owners of “Sunflowers” weren’t upset at all, as Gauguin’s masterpieces are also appreciated.
Scandalous Salvador Dali even after falling ill with Parkinson disease continued to write pictures with remarkable periodicity. Just after his death it became known that his woman Gala has employed youthful Spanish artist Manuel Puhol Paladas for painting works in the name of Dali. Manuel wrtote over 400 works, wash drawings, lithographs and about 2 hundreds oil pictures. This case is a kind of delicate and the critics hasn’t made up their mind yet, if these works must be related to the category of dublicates.
There also is a nonconventional way of a faking – “enhancement”. For this purpose they create the non-standard memoirs of the artist which would not leave public indifferent. Thus Elizabeth Durak one of students of the Australian art school has proceeded that way. In 70’s she has brought up – local Eddi Buropp. In the next years she has written a lot of pictures in peculiar style of natives in the name of the painter who never existed. When the public asked Elizabeth to show Eddi – pseudo ethno-artist has turned out to be the booze abuser. But Elizabeth wasn’t seriously criticized as her “promotion” has boosted attention to ethno art and to Australia as a cuounry.
Such well known painters as El Salvador Dali, Vincent van Gogh, Ogjust Renoir, Claude Monet, Cezanne, Frantsa Mark, Gustav Klimanta and Paul Gauguin’s are more frequently dublicated.
There is an exhibition of “150 legalized copies of well known pictures” in Italy. Value of such masterpieces go from 1 to 30 thousand euro. Customers of these pictures obtain a document that these masterpieces are «the exclusive masterpieces respecting a manner and the technics of the initial work and the following them».
Among owners of the official copies are such celebrities as Princess Diana, Antonio Banderas, Frenk Sinatra and many others.