A Border art project more than a year in the making will raise money later but has been a great learning experience for participants now.
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About 35 Border artists have contributed one or more paintings to Famous Fakes Auction, a fundraiser for Murray Valley Sanctuary Refugee Group.
Originally planned to take place on Friday, April 24, the auction will be rescheduled once the coronavirus restrictions lift.
Sanctuary volunteer Lynette Frauenfelder said the artists from groups like Albury Wodonga Artists Society, TAFE, Buds Art and GIGS Art Gallery had recreated well-known artworks by painters including Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir and Vermeer.
The refugee group had offered to reimburse their costs, such as buying a canvas, but "none of them have asked for any assistance".
"We're just so very grateful to these people," Mrs Frauenfelder said.
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Albury artist Meg Sprouster co-ordinated the creative efforts and also contributed a copy of Paul Gauguin's Haystacks in Brittany (1890).
"I love Gauguin's paintings," she said.
"I thought, 'Oh yes, this won't take me very long' because it's a landscape and I do landscapes anyway, but it took me a very long time.
"The real bonus of it was that I found I learned a great deal more about Gauguin than I actually had known prior to this.
"In art you have warm and cool, so you'll have a warm and cool red, a warm and cool yellow and a warm and cool blue.
"I realised that he limited his colours to be all the cool colours.
"One of the things that I really, really love about this was he'd just gone through a phase where he realised he actually wanted to immerse himself in the landscape."
Sprouster said there had been "a terrific response" to the project from Border artists "as I thought there would be".
"I think that's been a really nice thing for the Sanctuary group to realise they have that support," she said.
"I'm sure every artist who's done a copy of something would have something that they've got from it, just like I did."