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Genuine or Fake? Establishing Authenticity in Traditional Chinese Painting
A lecture on establishing authenticity in Traditional Chinese paintings will be held at LACMA.
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How does one determine a real from a fake Chinese painting? What determines the difference between a copy and a forgery? These questions have confounded collectors and connoisseurs for centuries. This lecture by Stephen Little, curator and head of the Chinese and Korean Art Department,examines some of the key issues and techniques involved in the connoisseurship of Chinese painting.
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