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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;blooey, post: 3297732, member: 12007&quot;]Well signatures apart, it is never a good sign to be able to see through an oil painting!</p><p>What this generally means is that the canvas support was not prepared in the traditional manner, i.e. with a primed gesso foundation. Basically the lack of a foundation would exclude this painting being from the hand of a trained artist.</p><p><br /></p><p>It may also be relined? </p><p><br /></p><p>I also believe the piece has been reduced from the original size -sometimes when this happens, the signature gets removed and a later hand will often &quot;add&quot; it again. Not uncommon, but in this case the lack of a foundation tends to put this very much in the camp of an admirer of said artist rather than a work by the artist himself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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