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Article: Joe Zane at Allston Skirt.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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This show of Joe Zane's multi-medium works from 2006 was a witty mix of homage, parody and wishful thinking. His oil-on-canvas paintings, colored-pencil drawings and sculptural objects take as their themes art fraud, sincere imitation, close replication and hapless fakery.
Eight small paintings (20 by 16 inches) are portraits of well-known European art forgers. Eric Hebborn is an affable-looking Brit who, the label says, made convincing copies of Rubens, Bruegel, van Dyck, Poussin, Tiepolo and Piranesi. Elmyr de Hory, meanwhile, is said to have sold a fake Matisse to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the 1950s, and also fooled the curators at Harvard's Fogg Art ...
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