Vintage view: Tips on how to spot the real thing

Painting or print, decorator’s piece or an authentic artwork? Kya deLongchamps gives you some tips on how to spot the real thing. 

REAL Pollocks and Picassos are unlikely to dress up the grass at Munster boot-sales, but heaps of jumbled paintings turn up at auctions and sales everywhere.

It’s worth researching the basics of spotting that genuine work of art from a cheerful reproduction or deliberate red herring.