MEET THE ARTIST
The list of local artists donating to our Art Auction for Second Chances keeps GROWING, and we’re going to keep SHARING about these AWESOME individuals.
Matthew Scott Honeycutt, matthewscotthoneycutt , brought us this exquisite piece, " A Wolfgang Beltracchi Original" (48x60).
Here’s what Matthew had to say about the donated art:
"Wolfgang is a living master who flawlessly forged some of the world's greatest painters and ended up in prison for it. As he served time, he worked to turn his illegal talents into a legitimate art business. He turned his mistakes into a thriving legal business after his release from prison. This piece is my version of one of his forgeries that he turned into a series after he was released from prison. It was Christ, the Savior by Leonardo da Vinci (which sold at auction for just under half a billion). Wolfgang painted multiple versions of it in the styles of well-known master artists but never painted a version in his own style. So I deci...
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