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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lucille.b, post: 118733, member: 51&quot;]Of course I wondered briefly if this was a copy due to lack of signature, but it seems like V. Dias isn&#039;t all that well known of a painter (found 5 paintings total online.)&nbsp; Also with current value at around $60-100 for actual sales price, there would be no financial incentive to copy his work, but suppose it could have happened as a practice piece or someone trying to get in on the portrait market in Portugal 50 years ago.&nbsp; I did notice that V. Dias made kind of &quot;formulaic&quot; treatments when painting certain areas just from those 5 paintings we did find.&nbsp; Look at the shirt in the first link from Bonhams, on mine and of this group below #1 and #3.&nbsp; They all have identical collars with left side up, right side down, similar noses, little dime sized circle of light above the nose, and three of the girls have the exact round wisp of black hair on the right side of their forehead, etc. etc.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.aspireauctions.com/#!/catalog/84/470/lot/20662" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.aspireauctions.com/#!/catalog/84/470/lot/20662" rel="nofollow">https://www.aspireauctions.com/#!/catalog/84/470/lot/20662</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Bev, when you mention, &quot;quite a few differences&quot; between the one I have and these others, I&#039;m curious.&nbsp; What do you see?&nbsp; Is it in the painting style? Thanks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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