The question of public name-calling "stolen" or "fake" is not as simple as it seems at first glance.
We should not forget that the art market in post-Soviet space and in the environment of its residents abroad, there by historical standards all anything. More recently, buying works from their authors or by collectors made without issuing any documents. Often these were gifts for the artists and and other support. Well, if the artist is alive, and you stayed with him on friendly terms. And if not? Unscrupulous heirs, if they provide a secure platform, may well be publicly accuse you of stealing, even if for reasons of eliminating competitors. And you immediately acquire the reputation of a man who "either stolen, or whether he had stolen, in general, with whom it is better not to communicate.
With counterfeiting more difficult. Imagine a situation where you know that the product is a rough copy of this that you possess, and photos which you have survived. However, the relatives and heirs of unscrupulous (or unskilled, but recognized), experts say that a fake script. In the first and the second is a sufficiently strong motivation for such activity with almost complete impunity, and you, in the case of a public statement, either as a slanderer or malosveduschim.
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