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"Portrait of a Man" from the collection of London's National Gallery, once attributed to Eugène Delacroix, and then accepted a fake, may belong to another famous painter's brush - the Englishman Walter Sikerta. , Writes The Art Newspaper.
The painting is now exhibited in the National Gallery in the exhibition "A careful study: fakes, mistakes and discoveries." Sikert handed it to Tate in 1922 and in 1956 moved to the National Portrait Gallery. Initially, his dated 1830-1850 years, it was thought that Delacroix, who died in 1863, depicted Victor Considerant, French utopian socialist, a follower of Fourier. Then now admitted forgery, in particular because it depicted a man was different from Considerant.
Now curator Vizman Betsy (Betsy Wieseman) stated that it is likely Sikert (1860 - 1942) and was the author of the picture. He could try to imitate his style of French painter of the XIX century or consciously prepared hoax to fool art. In this version, in particular, can say eccentric character Sikerta.
Specializes in works of British artist Wendy Baron, however, expressed doubts that the phony Delacroix may be true Sikertom. It assumes that the artist himself had been deceived and bought a fake painting. This is supported by the fact that in a letter Sikerta from 1906 referred to some work by Delacroix, bought them in Paris.
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