
Rue did not know by then that his father too had once got the portray appraised. It happened more than a decade ago i.e. in 1998. His father was told that the signature imprinted on the painting was not in match with other signs placed on other artwork of the artist. The disclosure was made to him at the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA). However, this was not the strangest revelation he made. So according to them, it was a fake painting.