I needs me a MacGuffin of sorts. Do you have a favorite painter?

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So, a painting figures prominently in the story I'm working on. I'm getting up on needing to decide who this painting is by. It need not be a real painting, but it will be billed as an early work of an artist whose paintings go for big money.

I didn't want anything obvious like a Picasso or a Van Gogh or Monet, and I don't yet have anything in mind, so I was wondering if a suggestion by one of you lovely people, if you had a favorite that would fit the bill, might not be fun to work with.

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Odilon Redon is my very favourite painter. I went mad in 2014 when I got to see so much of his stuff in the museums of Paris. Not enough people know of his beautiful works.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odilon_Redon
 

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Oh, how about René Magritte?
 

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Might be fun to pick someone like Verrocchio, where there's a lot of confusion over whether an attribution should be to the artist personally or to their studio.
 

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For someone more contemporary, how about Basquiat? He died tragically young (another member of the 27 Club), his collectors include rock stars and there's already been some forgeries.
 

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For someone more contemporary, how about Basquiat? He died tragically young (another member of the 27 Club), his collectors include rock stars and there's already been some forgeries.
Love his stuff! Saw a Basquiat exhibit here in Toronto at the AGO last year. (-:
 

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Magritte or Dali? Dali has a lot of early work and pencil work out there. I know someone who owns one.
 

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Hans Holbein? He's known for his portraits of Henry VIII and his wives.
 

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Rothko? I think a lot of his stuff could go unnoticed if people weren't familiar with him.
 

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Hans Holbein? He's known for his portraits of Henry VIII and his wives.

Yes, he is. He also did courtiers and the nobility and gentry and wealthy merchants and whoever could afford his fees. Previously unknown Holbeins still turn up occasionally, especially pencil portraits.
 

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You'll probably want to use the name of someone who's no longer with us. My personal faves: Georgia O'Keeffe. Ansel Adams. John Williams Waterhouse. Maxfield Parrish. Alphonse Mucha.

How long have you got?