Post #571640 by Okolehao on Tue, Jan 11, 2011 5:32 PM

I'm not so sure that the blue version is an original. If it's the one I think, it came up on eBay about a year and a half ago with some better photos. I'm not an expert but I saw some minor accent colors in the eyes and other places that a) weren't in the palette I'm familiar with after seeing the many photos in Leeteg of Tahiti b)didn't fit with his style by adding an extra color in such a small amount. Look at the yellow beads mixed in with the white. Not to mention that the painting just doesn't look right. The right wrist is funky.

I emailed the seller, thinking they just didn't know themselves, and explained the problems I thought the painting had and that it might be a copy. They stopped listing it after that. I guess it popped up again later.

From Leeteg of Tahiti: Paintings from the Villa Velour

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