Max Pechstein: “Seine Bridge with Freight Barges”

What did the experts say. In the advent of the affair, experts found out that when manufacturing the artwork ‘Seine Bridge with Freight Barges’, the forger used an image projector to cast images of Pechstein watercolors and ink drawings onto larger canvases, then traced slightly altered copies using oil paint. By this method he should have been able to reproduce Pechstein’s brushstroke very accurately. Nevertheless, our AI System was able to recognize the imitation, and classified the piece as ‘not-authentic’ with a probability of 94.75%!

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Max Pechstein: “Seine Bridge with Freight Barges”

What did the experts say. In the advent of the affair, experts found out that when manufacturing this piece, the forger used a projector to cast images of Pechstein watercolors and ink drawings onto canvas, then traced larger copies, using oil paint. By this method he shoud have been able to reproduce Pechstein’s brushstroke very accurately. Nevertheless, our AI System was able to recognize the imitation, and classified the piece as ‘not-authentic’ with a probability of 94.75%!

On the analyzed painting, the individual brushstrokes are clearly visible and pronounced. The AI has classifed the submitted image as fake, hence it follows that there is mismatch between the brushstroke learned from the training images vs the submitted piece. This finding raises the question why the art experts who initially issued a positive evaluation failed to notice this difference.
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