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Award-winning artist accused of copying second artwork
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- Jane Allan's Weight of the Mind's Periapt won the $2,000 Art Handler's award.
- Lennox Head artist Jane Allan was a finalist in the Darling Portrait Prize in 2022 and won the $2,000 Art Handler's award.
- Her work for prize, titled Weight of the Mind's Periapt bears similarities to a 1982 painting by renowned American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat called Untitled (Two Heads on Gold).
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Jane Allan's Weight of the Mind's Periapt won the $2,000 Art Handler's award. (Supplied: National Portrait Gallery)
Link copied Share Share article An Australian artist who won a $20,000 prize for a painting copied from another artist is being accused of a second case of imitation.
Lennox Head artist Jane Allan was a finalist in the Darling Portrait Prize in 2022 and won the $2,000 Art Handler's award.
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