Impressionist? No, just a parrot
Christophe Petyt is a likely customer for Dafen, that art-copying colony in China. He’s been collecting fake paintings for ages and his L’Art du Faux Collection, established in 1992, is in the Guinness records book as the world’s biggest.
He doesn’t seem embarrassed in the least. His new website, complete with enormous photographs of him, suggesting a tendency to narcissim (though he does hold charity auctions), boasts of more than 2,500 paintings “of the most prestigious artists”, though Guinness credits him with 3,500.
The latter number, Christophe’s site seems to say, applies to his L’Art du Faux Foundation, the output of 82 artists around the world – “only the best artists can become members”. See the rest.
