Spot the fake, by Deleted on Jan 14, 2015 10:25:54 GMT 1, Dulwich Picture Gallery experiments with 'fake' painting

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Dulwich Picture Gallery has paid $120 (£79) to a Chinese studio to produce a copy of an Old Master painting, challenging visitors to spot the fake among its permanent collection
Director Ian Dejardin said the experiment was "an intervention" that questioned the significance and value of original art.
"It will provoke a new way of looking at our collection," he said.

The identity of the replica, Made In China, will be revealed in April.

Conceptual artist Doug Fishbone came up with the idea, selecting the original work and commissioning the copy from one of China's numerous exporters of handmade oil paintings.
Southern China is the world's leading centre for mass-produced works of art.
The studios and workshops in the Dafen Village produce five million replicas a year for the global art market.
Fishbone hopes the experiment will raise questions about the nature and importance of an original work versus a replica.
"In the West, we see replicas as very problematic, as 'fakes' perhaps, whereas in China the notion of copying cultural artefacts is seen totally differently," he said.
"The idea of placing a Chinese replica in a Western museum then seemed like a loaded and exciting gesture. How do we see replicas in the West, and how does the institutional context in which a painting is exhibited effect how we react to it?"

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