Rene Magritte, Art Forger

“One is an original. The other, evidently, a copy. But René Magritte was a Surrealist, and the truth behind The Flavour of Tears suggests he was enjoying a huge – and probably lucrative – joke” by forging and selling his own painting. (But then, he had “made a living during the Nazi occupation of Belgium by forging Picassos and Renoirs.”)