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Show MASTER ART SWINDLER Grandson of Millet Reveals Himself ', " if r if IPX; ' ' 'V f Jp " . Jean Charlae Millet, left, grandson af Jean Franeeie Millet, knew new ta reproduce tha aignatura af tha famous artist. Psul Caiot, right, knew hew ta paint barna, but ha learned ta aepy eld maetere. a tha twa get together and perpetrated a wholesale art fraud an gutftbla and wealthy eottecrars. Foists Forgeries on Tourists With Aid of Clever Copyist, Fake Expert By MINOTT SAUNDERS PARIS Wholesale faking of famous fa-mous pictures perpetrated by Paul t'axot, a former house painter, and Jean Charles Millet, grandson of the celebrated Jean Francois Millet, Mil-let, ha caused much merriment In art clrclea here and will live aa another an-other warning1 to wealthy collec-tora collec-tora who go in for names at tha best market price. Tha chief sufferers of the swindle, swin-dle, which la believed to involve hundreds of vanaases. are those who bought the pictures bearing famoua signatures. Many of these have gone to the United Statea and Kngland and It will take a long time to determine which pictures are genuine and which are merely clever fakea. Reputable art dialers are unperturbed unper-turbed because they say the fakea could not have paaned through their hands. Obscure artiste are amused. If not jubilant, because they say tha test ef art ta the picture and not the name. Certain it is that Cazot did his faking ao well that he revealed him j aelf aa a really remarkable artist. When tha marktt waa utur.tcl an obscure art shop, a small canvas can-vas signed by Caiot. Millet, an artist ar-tist hfmeelf, caught a surprising re-aemblanco re-aemblanco with the work of his grandfather, the painter of "The Angelua. Ha hunted up Casot and, both needing money, they made a bustneea partnership and became friends. They prospered, and when not working in his studio la Mala-aons-Lseffitte, Caxot amused hinli-elf hinli-elf with his racing atablea. Tha swindle became more fan-taatio fan-taatio when Millet confessed that they had an accomplice who was found in the street aome years as;o alnglng and playing an accord. an for sou a. Me had an impressive appearance ap-pearance and Millet hired him, fitted him out in proper clothes, gavo him the high eoundinx name of Monsieur de Montalbot, and aet him tip aa an art expert. As auch he would be called In and' grnvrly vouched for the authenticity of the canvases painted by Caxot. Gullible Gulli-ble foreign amateurs were impressed im-pressed by tha art, the signature and the suave "expert," who actually ac-tually knew nothing about pic-tudee. pic-tudee. but could Impresaively handle han-dle a magnifying glass and look with Millets, ha branched out into tha landscapes of Cesanne. pastoral Corots, Monet cathedrala and Degas ballerlnes. showing an uncanny talent. tal-ent. With his new "art" ha could dash off an Imitation of a canvas that had taken tha original master weeks or months to complete. -To make them even mora authentic ha soaked tha canvases with chemicals Impregnated with dust that cava them an appearance of venerable age. SOLD TO WEALTHY But where are all tha faked plc-turea? plc-turea? Many have brought hand-aome hand-aome sums and experta now believe that they are hanging in homes or Included In private collections of wealthy collectors, chiefly foreign- through his thumb and finger. Casot readily admitted to the police po-lice what ha had been doing and abowed detectives around hia art factory where he had stacks of faked masters. Suddenly he pulled one picture from tha pile and wistfully wist-fully remarked: "Thla. gentlemen, la ths only genuine gen-uine picture in the room. It Is an authentlo Casot." Tha canvaa ehowed a ylew of Avignon and was painted by Casot when he was a atudent. Many of tha pictures In ths famous fa-mous Barbtzon museum have now been declared fakes, though American Ameri-can students have long been admlr-I admlr-I Ing tliem. They include the world celebrated "Man With a Hoe." attributed at-tributed to Millet, which Inspired Markham'l equally famous poem. This picture, probably the work of C'azot, was bought from young Millet Mil-let for (0.900 francs by M. Douhln. head of the museum. Later he refused re-fused six times that amount, offered of-fered by an American collector. Although Al-though it Is difficult for him to believe, be-lieve, he is now assursd by experts thst It is a fake. "Of course, I knew that this whole business would end as it has ended." said young Millet, In making his confession. "It wss too good to last. I am quite conscious of the extent of my guilt and I am ready to take full responsibility. But I am not the only ona In the business of selling faked masters." Millet, who was arrested In It:: and convicted for fraud In connection connec-tion with a deal to sell a fake picture, pic-ture, now denies that he cooperated with C'azet in dealing with masters other than his grandfsther. The two men have fallen out and their atatementa are giving the art world n amualng scandal. (NEA). era. Tha production of tha copies of paintings by Millet and other celebrated cele-brated artists, which were aold as originals, hsd been going on for over six yeers. Chsrles Millet, like hia grandfather, lives In Barhlzon, at the edge of the forest of Fon-tainebleau. Fon-tainebleau. He is . married and haa two children. Complaints from a London firm caused police to search his home and this led to the discovery of the faked paintings. Millet confessed to the fraud and named Caxot as the copyist and hia partner In the swindle. The faked paintings wer esold by Millet, who supported their euthenllclty by passages from his grandfather s private pri-vate notee and correspondence. When he wss a child young Millet learned to write his grandfather's signature with surprising accuracy and his parents thought It a pretty trick. He has used It to sign the Millet copies painted by Cazot. STRIKING LIKENESS ' MiUet told tha police that hli Idea of tha business came to him years ago when he saw. In the window of |