Will the Real Van Gogh Please Stand Up?

This topic came up while I was researching Van Gogh Portraits.

I found lots of "fakes" out there. I sincerely hope I have not posted

any Van Gogh forgeries. If I have it is not intentional.

So how do you know if it is a fake? ( forgery)

Here are some examples of forgery.

Real Painting                                             

Forgery

 

Forgery ( L)                                                       Real Van Gogh (R)

The above forgery ( Sunflowers ) is still a big controversry.

Some say yes, some say no.

Check out the below sites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_forgery

http://www.vggallery.com/misc/fakes/main.htm

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0510/p15s02-stss.html

http://www.mystudios.com/gallery/forgery/history/forgery-18.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/otto-wacker?cat=entertainment

http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/archives/2005/01/multiple_forger.html

http://www.auburn.edu/~hoffmij/html/vangoghgallery.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2007-08-03-1947943035_x.htm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/03/27/wgogh27.xml

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2DF123DF93AA35751C1A966958260