In the movie, the painting is supposed to be worth $100 million. No painting is worth $100 million. But for the movie, $100 million is a number that any person can understand as expensive. If you say $50 million nowadays, it`s not enough.
I did the one with the big butt. They said they want something that looks like a Renoir with the face of a 19th-century painting, so we had to do a grotesque painting. It was done in four days.
Gallery owners know me, but they never say, `Hello,` because they don`t want other people to know they know me, ... I have a little flag on my head saying, `I`m the guy doing the fake things.`
Collectors say, `I hate reproductions. It`s awful. Why would anybody do that?,` ... That`s what they say officially. But behind the scenes they use our copies. On the walls they have our copies. All their paintings are in vaults.