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The Essential: The Why Factor: Copying Art

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Fake Art, a copy of Picasso by artist David Henty

14/06/2016 GMT

The Why Factor: Copying Art

BBC World Service - The Essential, The Why Factor: Copying Art

Mike Williams asks why people copy famous works of art and who buys them.

Mike Williams asks why painters copy famous works of art, brush stroke by brush stroke. And why people will buy something that will never be an original.

Why do people try to create old masters and modern art, brush stroke by brush stroke?  And why do people buy them?  Mike Williams talks to art copier David Henty, fine art expert and gallery owner Philip Mould and Colette Loll, director of the Washington-based Art Fraud Insights.

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