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‘A bizarre, déjà vu knock-off haven’: Artists selling cut-price bootlegs of expensive works, using scrap materials, at the Frieze Art Fair sold out

IMITATION, SOME say, is the sincerest form of flattery.Just try telling that to an art dealer at Europe’s biggest contemporary art fair after a replica of a client’s painting has sold for peanuts.