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After a forgery conviction, he sold openly labelled imitations
In 1985, John Myatt advertised paintings that imitated famous artists while openly describing them as copies. A buyer resold them as originals, and Myatt joined the fraud. Convicted in 1999, he later returned to making works explicitly presented as imitations.
The likeness was only part of the story; the description mattered too.
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