中国画家伪作换真迹获利数千万元_时事

中国画家伪作换真迹获利数千万元

"我有机会第一次看到这些画作。远远地看着，感觉很多是赝品，被人‘掉包'过。我当时没做声，却起了贪念，心想之前有人掉包过，我现在手里就有钥匙，也可以这样做，"他说。

A year later he began visiting the library on weekends, taking home works by famous painterssuch as Qi Baishi and Zhang Daqian, then copying them himself. He avoided the best-knownworks, including the more impressionistic paintings of the Lingnan School, which scholars at theinstitution knew well and were likely to be lent out for exhibitions.

一年之后，他开始在周末来到图书馆，将齐白石、张大千等著名画家的作品带回家，然后自己临摹。他会避开名画，比如岭南画派的印象派风格画作，因为这些作品为广州美术学院的学者们所熟知，而且还很可能会借出去展览。

Mr. Xiao purchased centuries-old blank paper and ink to render his forgeries and boasted thatno one at the school's library could tell the difference. "From then up to the present, no oneelse understood except me," he said. "They just understood how to keep track of thenumbers."

萧元买来几百年前的宣纸和砚墨，临摹出赝品。他夸耀说学校图书馆里没人能看出差别。"从那时到现在，在图书馆我是唯一懂美术的人，"他说，"其他人只会点数。"

Prosecutors said that Mr. Xiao sold 125 paintings valued at 34 million renminbi, about $5.5million, through auction houses. He also still had in his possession 18 works from the librarywith a total estimated worth of 77 million renminbi. He told the court that auction houses hadthought those works were fake and had refused to sell them.