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Show FAKING ART IS ' IMFJN All Thousands of Copies Solil in Kuropp to Wealthy Americans. Amer-icans. ARTISTS HIRED BY MONTH TO EXECUTE FORGERIES Pake Pictures Costing $8.0 to $100 Sold as High as $16,000. PARIS Nov. Zti Disclosures alarming to amaleurs are made respecting the faking" of pictures in ihe dealers' and ! experts' trade by the editor of the "Ravue Internationale des Falsifications," the Official organ of the International commission commis-sion for the repression of all kinds of adulteration, presided over by Prof. Brouardel. According to one author, M. Franche, the forging of painted works of art Is an old estabUsheo wholesale busl- , nessi and he accuses man) experts and sworn auctioneers of the llot.-i Prouot and the principal auction rooms for art sabs of deliberate fraud Scoies of Examples Quoted. Scores ' ef ' examples are quoted haphazard. hap-hazard. At the famous San Ponatn sole In IT". says the writer, three alleged works of Delarocht were knocked down as authentic at SK.fnn for the lot. They WeiX epic?, two of them painted by a Mme varcollfer and the third bi M Berenger, the authors r living or 1100 apiece for the pIctUTfS, Mam artists- work are forged In for. they are dead. Becentlj twenty paintings, paint-ings, all spurious ascribed to three living men were Belied Just as they were being sent off to the United Stales by a Paris de.ilnpof great reputilon -Thousands Sold in America. Among the earlier schools forgers hae made most money out of that of I8S0 Thousands of sham CorolS, Plaz, Daub-Ignys, Daub-Ignys, Dnpres, Theodore RoiISSeaUS, TTOyons, have been sold In America," Dealers paid whole staffs of forgers to paint In Fontalneblenu Forest, made famous fa-mous by Rousseau, and the woods of the Venx de C. may. where Corot sketched. Many of these pictures now figure In well-known collections! as authentic. Does 'Old Masters" on Salary. A Paris dealer having hought four pictures pic-tures by Corot. Pa'ablgny. Diaz and Boussesui femploysu en artist to execute tWenty-nV CaplM, With slight alterations of earh canvas, paving him E00 per month to execute the Job. giving him also board and lodging In a country villa Those hundred pi. Hires are now In American Amer-ican collections, having been purchased as authentic at stiff prices. The works of the portrait painters of the eighteenth century ha. been cbpSfcd to the same oztent OfJher masters who are successfully success-fully Imitated by forgers are Rembrandt, Ruysdnel. Hobbema, Roucher and Wat-teau. Wat-teau. A few dealers' tricks are revealed I,ate-1 I,ate-1 the owner of two undoubtedly genuine Manets described In the authoritative catalogue of the painter's works by M j Duret, who has seen them on hie sasel In his studio and hought from his widow, offt red them to an amateur, who, ooneult-ine, ooneult-ine, mi expert, was told by the latter who had never seen them that they were spurious. The exp. ri subsequently sck-no'wledged sck-no'wledged thai h had said so becausi he had Manet of his own to dispose of. An amateUT being offered 8 genuine i . r..t for SH'hn'i whs ris-mrpd by his expert , that it w.. ii forgery, and .ni not buy it. i atei on he purchased Corot from the ..rt for IM00, This was eventually proved i the owner of the first canvas to be the ery same one which the .-x pert had l.otight for $1600 after putting off the amateur, and had resold to him for three times that amount. Methods of Faking. Some methods Of facing are described Tio- patlnn produced by tim. w imitated with saffron, bistre n.pioris r black effee and a subsequent varnish. Oil mixed with varnish or a compound of bitumen, yellow lake and red ochre are also used For complete forgeries the canvas and frame are first of all aged li exposure to sun. wind and rain. In the case ..f shnm Italian uuattrocentlst and clnquecentlst pictures the methods are complicated and elaborate. To beln with the canvas Is treated witn whit.- if egfl then powdered with fine ground coffee. Thick coatings of glue are then passed over, each being dried before a Bright fire to produce crack" Poitrait Is "Treated." A portrait of a woman with the hands unpalnted war bought t Bheims some time .igo for $40 by a speclnllst. treated by one nf the above methods, the hands lieins painted In, and all the test "aged and the canvas sold, first for tfff then finall) as an authentic Largilliera for jj;. on |