Word: gogh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looks like a Van Gogh, they did a very good job and it's art," said Meaghan F. Corwin, a 17-year-old summer school student. "If they're trying to pass it off as a Van Gogh, they should get a slap on the wrist but, if it looks real, they did a good job and deserve a pat on the back...
...Gogh, who was one of the leaders of the Post-Impressionist movement, produced an estimated 900 paintings and 1,200 drawings...
...article said the difficulty authenticating a Van Gogh is caused by a lack of sales records from the artist's lifetime. Van Gogh sold virtually nothing during his life, and only in the decades after his death did the popularity of his works soar...
...1920s the price of his work was already high, and this was actually the period when most of the Van Gogh pictures which have been questioned now emerged and came onto the market," Bailey said...
...article added that "greedy fakers were helped by the publication of Van Gogh's diaries, in which they could read the artist's descriptions of work-in-progress which they could then counterfeit...