When you're buying art from Jolly Redd in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, there's a chance it may be fake. Here's how to tell what's real and what's not. One of the many special visitors who can visit your island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a fox named Jolly Redd. Redd, who was known as Crazy Redd in previous games, is still the same character and was added way back in the 1.2.0 update in April 2020, but he remains a key character today even on Switch 2 and following the 3.0 update. He brought a major feature to the game: art! Like fish, bugs, and fossils, art can be donated to the museum once it has upgraded--but only if that art is real. Redd, being a shady fox, will often sell fake art, and you can't donate the fakes. This means that a keen eye for paintings and statues is important. Here's how you can make the most of your time trading art by telling which Jolly Redd art is real or fake. There are currently 43 pieces of real art in New Horizons, including classic paintings, statues, and a few ancient artifacts to collect. Below, we list all the art in the game and detail how to spot a real piece of art from a fake. However, you might want to buy some of the fakes anyway if you like haunted art. Want us to remember this setting for all your devices? Now Playing: Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 3.0 Update and Switch 2 Edition Overview Trailer If you're looking for a complete list of all the items in New Horizons, including art, you can check out GameFAQs' catalog tool--you can search for the items you're looking for or just browse. While Jolly Redd joins the cast of special visitors who can visit your island at random, he won't show up right away. First, you have to donate at least 60 items (fish, bugs, and/or fossils) to the museum, according to dataminer @_Ninji on Twitter. Once you've done that, the next time you talk to Blathers, he'll tell you he'd like to expand the museum to include an art wing. The day after that, Redd will arrive in his Treasure Trawler boat. The first time Jolly Redd visits your island, he will wander around the way Saharah, Flick, and some other visitors do and sell you a piece of art sight-unseen. This piece of art should be legitimate, and you can donate it to Blathers in order to trigger the museum upgrade. The second time he visits, you'll have to talk to him in order to get permission to enter his boat, which will be docked at the "secret" beach on the north side of your island; after that, on the days he visits, you can simply enter his boat without speaking to him first. An icon representing his boat will appear on your map on the days Redd visits. When on Redd's boat, you'll be able to inspect the art before you buy it--which is where the images below will come in handy. Each piece of art, regardless of whether it's genuine or not, costs 4,980 bells. You can only buy one piece of art per day, but you can buy art on friends' islands, and friends can buy art on your island as long as they haven't already bought a piece of art somewhere else that day. This is useful for the occasions when Redd is selling two pieces of legitimate art, which is entirely possible! And since Redd visits randomly, he won't always visit your friends on the same day he visits you, which means you can coordinate with your friends to buy art on each other's islands and speed up your art-collection process. All the art in Animal Crossing games is based on real-world masterworks like van Gogh's The Starry Night, da Vinci's Mona Lisa, and Hokusai's The Great Wave. There's a good chance you'll recognize at least some of the art on sale, and for the ones you don't recognize, we've included details about the real-life art and artists below. The trick to spotting a forgery is inspecting the art to see if it matches its real-world counterpart. Usually, this involves looking for differences in a focal point of the painting: The Girl with a Pearl Earring's pearl earring, Mona Lisa's eyebrows, and the like. Colors, facial features, clothing, and more might be incorrect. However, there are some paintings for which there is no fake version at all, so if it looks right, there's a chance it is. Below are side-by-side images of the real and fake art that Jolly Redd sells. Paintings are in alphabetical order from the top, followed by statues and artifacts, and we've indicated those pieces that have no fake version as well. There is a complete list of all the art and a text description of the fake version in the table at the bottom of this article; we're working to add all the images over the coming days. There are coffee stains in the top right corner of the fake academic painting. In the fake basic painting, the boy has heavy, straight-across bangs. There is no fake version of the common painting. The flowers are purple in the fake; in the real detailed painting, they are blue. There is also vertical text and an icon on the left side of the real painting. There is no fake version of the dynamic painting. The fake Mona Lisa has arched, contoured eyebrows. There is no fake version of the flowery painting. There is no fake version of the glowing painting. The woman should only take up two-thirds of the height of the graceful painting. In the fake, she's much taller. There's also another version of this fake in which she's facing the other way (but she's the same size). In the real jolly painting, the subject has a leaf coming out of their chest in the bottom right corner. There is no fake version of the moody painting. There are tall trees on the right side of the real moving painting. The fake is missing the trees. There is no fake version of the mysterious painting. There is no fake version of the nice painting. There is no fake version of the perfect painting. There is a solid stream of water coming out of the pitcher in the fake quaint painting. The real one is just a trickle. In the fake scary painting, the man's eyebrows are angled down, toward the outside of this face. In the real painting, they're angled up, like the letter V. In the fake scenic painting, there is one man in the bottom-left corner; in the real painting, there are two. The animal in the fake serene painting looks more like a duck, with dark markings around its eyes and a yellowish snout. In the real painting, it is all white. There is no fake version of the sinking painting. The man in the doorway is lifting his arm up in the fake; in the real solemn painting, he is holding open a curtain with his arm more perpendicular to the ground. There is no fake version of the twinkling painting. The creature should be white; in the fake wild painting (left half), it is green. In the fake wistful painting, the girl's earring is a large, silver star instead of a pearl. The fake may also appear with her eyes closed (and the same star earring); it is not a separate item, however. That's because the wistful painting is one of several "haunted" art pieces that can move and/or change! She'll have her eyes open during the day and closed at night. The fake ancient statue has antennae by its head. The fake beautiful statue is wearing a necklace. The fake informative statue is blue, while the real one is a more realistic gray. The fake mystic statue has a dangly earring. The fake rock-head statue is smiling. The fake tremendous statue has a lid; the real statue is open with no lid. In the fake, the statue is stepping forward with its left foot. In the real valiant statue, it is stepping forward with its right. The fake warrior statue is holding a shovel; the real one is holding nothing. Below is a complete list of all the art you can buy from Jolly Redd in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, including what real-life art it's based on and a description of how to identify the fake version (if there is one). We will add images of all the art to the list above as we get them. This guide was updated for the Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0 update in January 2026. Latest in Animal Crossing: New Horizons Animal Crossing Island Transfer Tool: How To Move Your New Horizons Saves To Switch 2 Winter Wonderlands: 16 Fun Video Games Set During Christmas The Best Ways To Spend New Years Eve In-Game