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The Oct. 1986 Smithsonian magazine explored the " melting timepieces " artwork of the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí.

It quoted one of his secretaries as claiming that she signed the artist's signature to postcard depictions of his paintings.

Another article in the April 2005 Smithsonian noted: " In 1965 he began selling signed sheets of otherwise blank lithograph paper for $ 10 a sheet.

He may have signed well over 50, 000 in the remaining quarter century of his life, an action that resulted in a flood of Dalí lithograph forgeries.