- Title: BELGIUM: FAKE ART EXHIBITION
- Date: 8th November 1997
- Summary: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (NOVEMBER 7, 1997) (RTV) 1. SV/CU: EXTERIOR EXHIBITION/ SIGN SAYING "EXHIBITION OF FAKES"(FRENCH) (2 SHOTS) 0.13 2. SV: INTERIOR EXHIBITION 0.18 3. CU: COPY OF "FLEMISH PROVERBS" BY PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER 0.22 4. CU/TILT: COPY OF BALTHASAR SEEING THE HOLY SCRIPTURES BY REMBRANDT (2 SHOTS) 0.45 5. GV: SEVERAL COPIES OF GRAND MASTERS 0.49 6. CU: COPY OF "DEJEUNER AU BORD DE LA RIVIERE" BY RENOIR/ INSCRIPTION ON THE BACK OF THE PAINTING INDICATING IT IS A COPY (2 SHOTS) 1.19 7. CU: COLLECTOR CHRISTOPHE PETYT SAYING: YOU CAN'T PASS THEM OFF AS ORIGINALS BECAUSE THE ARTISTS AREN'T USING ORIGINAL MATERIALS, THEY ARE ALL MODERN MATERIALS, SO YOU NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE (FRENCH) 1.33 8. GV: PAINTINGS IN THE EXHIBITION 1.40 9. CU/ZOOM/GV: VARIOUS DETAILS OF COPY OF VINCENT VAN GOGH PAINTING (3 SHOTS) 2.06 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
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- Country: Belgium
- Reuters ID: LVA5CR51WNKZFY0QW8H2YLDVX42X
- Story Text: - INTRO: There is good news for art lovers in Belgium where over a hundred great masters have gone on show this week. The bad news, however, is that they are all fakes.
Famous paintings by great artists including Van Gogh, Monet and Rembrandt can be found side by side at an exhibition that opened on Friday (November 7) in a small room below a central Brussels hotel.
Just one catch though - the works in question are all fakes, part of an impressive travelling collection currently touring Europe.
The forgeries are the work of various artists, working alone and each specialising in imitating a particular painter.
Collector Christophe Petyt, who has bought more than 1,000 works from his 82-strong syndicate of 'fakers' over the last five years, says his collection is different from fakes aimed at tricking the world art market. Although they are for sale, his works are sold explicitly as fakes, and labelled as such.
Although Petyt admits some buyers might like to pretend their paintings are real, he says they could not seriously be passed off as genuine as the painters use modern materials not those of the time.
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