Wanganui artist Peter Ireland who exposed a fake Gottfried Lindauer painting at the Waikato Museum of Art and History says there are plenty more forgeries out there to be uncovered.
Ireland said it took 10 months from the time he spotted the forgery hanging in the Hamilton museum till its owners, charity Trust Waikato, took action and had the work investigated.
The matter is now with the police and the trust has brought in the lawyers.
Unique Gift
The painting is of Tainui chief Kewene Te Haho. The painting was brought by the trust at auction in 2001 for $121,000.
Portrait Artist
Ireland suspects the painting may be the work of forger Karl Sim, who took the name of the artist he most often replicated, CF Goldie. Ireland said he came across the painting while at an exhibition for a fellow Wanganui artist, potter Paul Maseyk.
"I was nosing round the museum and saw the Lindauer on a wall. It too just two minutes looking at it to release it wasn't a Lindauer.
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