Fake Lowry paintings sold online for £ 3,000

The eBay online auction closed the artist’s online store, which admitted to selling fake paintings by twentieth-century English artist Laurence Lowry. Note that the price of copies was very high - up to £ 3,000 each. In addition, the eBay administration has confirmed that they will suspend the activities of other stores selling fakes.

Last week, on the artist’s page David Henty on eBay, a picture appeared, accompanied by an explanation: “There are no documents, the origin is unknown, presumably L.S. Lowry”. But after it turned out that the drawing was a copy from the painting, and the original itself had been previously sold at auction for £ 500,000, the lot was withdrawn from sale, and the Henti online store became unavailable.

56-year-old Brighton artist David Henti is not shy about his work. In his interview for the Sunday Telegraph, he talked about how he fakes paintings not only by Lowry, but also by many other artists. “Impressionists are pretty easy to fake. I’m self-taught. I have several art books that I have read to the end. I can even copy signatures. I feel my involvement in the artist’s work, I look at things with his eyes. When I was in Spain, I forged several Van Gogh works at once. ”

Lawrence Lowry is one of the most influential artists of Great Britain of the twentieth century, in whose works the everyday life of large industrial cities was reflected.

Commenting on the situation, an eBay spokesman said: “Fakes are illegal and are not welcome on eBay. We are ready to take measures against those who try to make money on counterfeit products and carefully process each complaint against a particular seller… We spend millions of pounds every year to maintain the site’s security, and we regret that in this case we were not able to comply with high standards and timely establish the sale of fakes. ”

Anna Sidorova © Gallerix.ru