As we were walking around Paris we met Nikolla Dhales, a street artist whose home is in Florence, Italy. He spends time in Paris painting and selling his work on one of the bridges near the Louvre, no doubt hoping that tourists interested in art will take a look at his work. We did, and found it very lovely! Below his picture is some of his work...
Most of the street artists are found on an "artist's square" near Sacre-Coeur on Montmartre. Here is some of their art....
The work of another street artist near the Louvre....
There is something suspicious going on here. I am a picture framer and at the moment I have several 'watercolours' painted by this artist for framing. He had bought them for about 7 euros each in Paris (from the artist he believed) and is convinced that they are genuine watercolours, but I have doubts that they are genuine watercolours although they are on quality watercolour paper. One of the 'paintings' is exactly the same as the second picture shown above (river with Notre Dame in the background); and I mean exactly the same in every detail and brushstroke. The only difference is that the sky is different and the painting has been cropped at each side. I think that what has happened is that the artist (or somebody else pretending to be N Dhales)has painted a very detailed and high quality painting, but left the sky unpainted. He then photocopies the painting onto good quality watercolour paper and then paints in the sky and clouds for each copy individually (two minute job for a competent artist), thus giving each print an originality.
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We have an *exact* copy of that same painting (border strokes and skies even match) from our trip... in 2013.
Note the signature in our 'print' was dated 2013.
I was also told the art work (for only 25e) was original, I had doubts, but it was really awesome... the artist who said he did it was a different person.
DeleteI have a very well done print of the Louvre, fourth image down. It is on official paper. These were on sale in Paris the year I went in 2019. The seller said it was original, I doubted it and talked him down in price. No way he would sell the original for €80. Such a beautiful image though, still glad I got it.
ReplyDeleteI am an artist and bought 2 pieces for 50 euros"watercolors" from young man by Notre Dame who later I realized was cropped and signed as well N. Dhales . He acted as an artist having sketched art on his lap. He Said I am Niko Dhales and I painted all those original watercolors myself.
ReplyDeleteHe commits fraud by forgering real artist work and claiming his name. Next day I came and asked about this and he has a cover up story. There was my exact replaced copy of same art I bought. He is making a lot of sales. I asked for his ID he said he left it at home. Someone please help me to find contact for real artist? ?
I bought the second painting from a person with Russian accent near the seine river where the bouquinistes are. He pretended he was the artist, but I had some doubts. Nevertheless, I paid 50 Euros each for 2 paintings but probably could have bargained more. I wish people were more honest.
ReplyDeleteWe travel to Paris in 2023 and bought a painting from a person that claimed was Nikolla Dhales, but he had an Uruguayan accent, he give us a "discount" because we where Mexican and sell a nice foto copy of a water painting at 20 euros claiming to be an original watercorlor, I framed it an hang it on my wall and its a nice story to tell in parties, of how we got scammed in Paris
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