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| | Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Under suspicion |
 | | However, if an oil-painting looks at first sight like a self-portrait of that famous face, and in that famous manner, it can only be one of three things: original, a copy in good faith, or a fake. |
 | | It turns out, on the evidence of recent researchers, that fakes began to be made of Van Gogh's work about a decade after his death in 1890, so even if a painting has a history back to the beginning of the 20th century, it could still come under suspicion. |
 | | It becomes sensational when the works that fall under suspicion are famous, such as the portrait of Dr Gachet in the Musée d'Orsay, or the Tokyo version of the sunflowers. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1390726,00.html (896 words) |
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