How could all of these fakes get into circulation without anyone noticing? I mean, there can't be two. So where are the originals? You'd think every piece from every major artist would be documented as to who owned them. Otherwise, how could we study styles?
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Well if you consider the time this movie was made, just 20 years after WWII, a lot of art was (and still is to this day) missing from the days when the Nazi's plundered the art of Europe for Hitler's supposed super museum. Of course the museum never happened, and the art was stuck in salt mines and god knows where else. So it really isnt impossible to make a knock-off of a lost painting and claim its real
shareAlso, sometimes expert forgers would create brand new pieces and pass them off as work never seen before by a particular artist. The Venus statue, for example, was the only one of its kind, not copied after another statue, but by the forger's wife's body.
shareI thought at the beginning he mentioned that he kept the originals for himself. Or at least some of them. Because the restorers wanted to do something possibly damaging to it and so he painted a new one and kept the original as is. So he looked at it as protecting them ins a selfish sort of way. And also pride I'm sure that he could create an exact replica of something considered a masterpiece.
"Are you telling me you're into artificial men?!"
"Is there any other kind?"
Bonnet never copied an already existing masterpiece, but rather painted pictures in the style of the respective artist.
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