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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;antidiem, post: 1362485, member: 30&quot;]&quot;My sense is that it is advanced student copy of a work from the period portrayed. Even Picasso painted copies of the Old Masters as a way of working on his skills.</p><p><br /></p><p>It feels like this sort of thing to me:&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, to me too, that is the &#039;look&#039; that tips me off to 1990s oriental import. </p><p>Danyana, I had no idea orientals were doing such fine painting! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> Until I paid an ebay seller $900 for one that was a copy of an obscure 1950s painting. They even used 1950s canvas to paint on. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I am a bit more wary of this genre of oil paintings now... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not saying it&#039;s not beautiful and the oriental people who paint these (copies) are highly skilled painters. By their customs, it&#039;s not &quot;technically&quot; a fake. By our customs, it is. The one I was burned on was more beautifully painted in a more colorful pallet, than the original.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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