‘Genuine Fakes’ Find Takers at Paris Auction

PARIS — Fake paintings by French masters, auctioned as such in Paris on Monday, found buyers and brought prices that would have made genuine artists green with envy.

Painter Daniel Delamarre, who boasts that he paints “genuine fakes,” said U.S. collector Lawrence Rockefeller bought copies of Paul Gauguin’s “Te Avae No Maria” for $22,500 and a still-life by Paul Cezanne for $15,000.