Good Faun vs Bad Faun
Thinking of the Shaun Greenhalgh fake Paul Gauguin Faun, it occurred to me that curators who collect the works of second-rate artists and pretend the perpetrators were geniuses are begging to be duped by other second-rate artists. Take Shaun's Faun below. Any hack could have made that, even Paul Gauguin. Now look at James Pradier's magnificent Satyr and Bacchante (1834). I challenge any artist to create a fake of this quality. (Note: although they differed originally, Greek fauns and Roman satyrs became interchangeable.)
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