Redd's Fake Paintings (Spoilers)

[Gingersnap]

Let's see how good I'll retain my years of art history.

I hope they have some dadaism pieces. I love art that makes people mad.

I just got out of some art history classes so I'm ready to do this by memory alone!

 

[Calysis]

All of the paintings/statues in Redd's store today were fake for me, so be aware that he can have no real art for sale, either!

Also, Redd does say that you are limited to 1 art purchase, per customer, per day.

 

[Junee]

Also, it seems like it's possible to have multiple real paintings in one day for this game as well. Of the four paintings for sale, two of them were real.

My art major friend was helping me and kept looking back and forth between two paintings trying to figure out which one was fake. Turns out both were real lol.

Were you able to buy both real paintings or only one of them?

 

[Stacyfaith]

I just got out of some art history classes so I'm ready to do this by memory alone!

Lol, yeah I remember Las Meninas from my Baroque & Rococo class. It looks great in-game! The fake is so subtle though, I didn't even notice the difference at first. This challenge is going to be interesting lol.

 

[Saylor]

Whoa I love that. I was gonna try to see if I could spot differences in the paintings on my own but I'm probably gonna need to pull up the originals to compare for lots of them. I can't wait to get scammed!

 

[Jassiii]

I...I thought it was a joke at first because the hand looks like

 

[eat]

Were you able to buy both real paintings or only one of them?

Only one of them. He limits one painting per day and unlimited for furniture items.

 

[moonshi]

I just bought the sinking painting from Redd and thankfully it was the real one. Is it just me or are you not able to look at them before you buy anymore? Took a gamble but I know I won't be lucky every time.

 

[Underneath The Stars]

when is it coming? or is his ship random?

i wouldn't consider this a spoiler because we will google anyway to get the legit paintings, but i get you're just following forum rules lol

 

[DeadGhostFire]

I just bought the sinking painting from Redd and thankfully it was the real one. Is it just me or are you not able to look at them before you buy anymore? Took a gamble but I know I won't be lucky every time.

I got an option to do an in depth zoom in so and deny if i didnt like it so I think you mightve just missed it?

 

[Xara]

i’m gonna blackout trying to figure out what’s real and fake. i’ve only purchased the scary painting from him so far and thankfully it was real!

 

[CowKing]

Redd was wandering around my island and was offering a twinkling painting to me for 4,980 bells. I was surprised it was real because the way he originally 'tried' to charge me half a million for the painting and decided to cut the price is usually a tactic people use to scam people. Glad I got lucky!

 

[moonshi]

I got an option to do an in depth zoom in so and deny if i didnt like it so I think you mightve just missed it?

Thanks for that! Great to know! Now I will be more careful! We were all ready to do a zoom and comparison but didn't see it so we thought it may have changed.

 

[Sharpington]

We were able to zoom in on them before? I don't remember that at all. The differences were just big enough to see with the regular camera angles

I am really surprised how tiny these tells are now! Even if you're really familiar with the painting in question you'd still have to look some of these up. I never would have gotten the first one, but I guess since they're hi-res scans of the real paintings you can't attribute little things like that to imperfect pixelation.

It would be fun to see if I could get ANY without cheating, but I'm not brave enough to waste my one purchase like that. Especially since the only thing missing from my NL museum was a single painting. This time I WILL get them all!

 

[Acies]

Only one of them. He limits one painting per day and unlimited for furniture items.

Well, seems like it's going to take some time to get every statue two times for my island.

 

[DaviddivaD]

Does Google Lens work on these paintings helping to find the differences? There are only a few I know the real names of.

 

[thatawkwardkid]

Spoiler

Fake Basic Painting:

Real:

 

[Saikarie]

Oh I can show you what the fake moving painting is like!

Spoiler

The fake one (pictured above) does not have a tree in the right of the background.

Heres the real painting irl below in comparison

Hope this helps! It's one of the more obvious ones luckily lol

 

[Dormire]

I made a thread in my Twitter but I'll post what I do know. Spoiler warning btw. (will only include the confirmed paintings with fake copies)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1253275055246544897

Spoiler: The Blue Boy/Basic Painting

Unlike the ACNL fake (where the man has both two hands on his hip), the ACNH fake has a longer hair than the real one and...has...fuller bangs unlike the real one? lol

Spoiler: The Kitchen Maid (or The Milkmaid)/Quaint Painting

unlike in ACNL, the painting does not wear a blue bonnet instead the "fake" has a wider stream of milk vs. the real one which has a thinner stream

 

[Kindra]

I made a thread in my Twitter but I'll post what I do know. Spoiler warning btw. (will only include the confirmed paintings with fake copies)

Ooh, is that Vitruvian Man confirmed real? I had that one but thought it might have been a fake due to the coffee stain!! Ended up going with Ophelia instead, hope it will be real -- but if not, I can't wait to display it in my house!

As for me, I got this fake version of the Beautiful Statue (Venus De Milo):

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The real one won't be wearing a necklace

And I think that this version of the Wild Painting left side (Wind God and Thunder God) is fake too:

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Looks like a palette swap for the right side