Since 1986, in his Originals series, Dag Erik Elgin has devoted himself as a re-creating painter to his own admittedly subjective, but not unusual, canon of modern painting. In the series he repeats the selected works, all of them Modernist or Clas-sical Modernist, but without pursuing maximum -authenticity in the copying manner of an art forger. The resulting canvases are at the boundary be-tween complete appropriation and studying replica;...