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Magritte once forged paintings to pay the rent
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Before Rene Magritte became universally famous for painting men in bowler hats with apples covering their faces, he had a deeply illegal side hustle. Struggling to pay the rent, the surrealist simply started forging paintings by Picasso and Titian. He was incredibly good at it, secretly flooding the art market with fakes to fund his own legitimate painting career.
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