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While not in a position to pass any judgment on your paintings, there certainly were many, many imitations around of Xu Beihong and other well known painters in the early 1980s. Just because we weren't aware of much about the Chinese market for 20th century paintings in 1984 doesn't mean that it didn't exist, or that Chinese students and others had stopped actively copying and in some cases forging for sale the works of artists they respected including Xu. You are hoping this is genuine, but speculating about why someone would frame paper with foxing doesn't make it genuine. (Some people frame the kindergarten pictures that their kids make.)
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