By Michael Zhao (’07), Forbes
Sep 18 ‘06
Good grief! Mass-produced Chinese art is making serious inroads in the U.S. market Want to own a Gustav Klimt? You may not have been bidding on the Austrian master’s “Adele Bloch-Bauer I,” which went to Manhattan’s Neue Galerie museum in June for $135 million. However, you can get a reduced-size reproduction for $109 by clicking on OilPaintingsGallery.com or for $189 at Oceansbridge.com. Most reproductions of this sort come from China, where at least 30,000 painters earning $100 to $150 a week work in “oil painting villages” churning out copies of Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam,” Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” or Leonardo…

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