I Think the Met’s $95M van Gogh Masterpiece Is a Fake

New York Post ^ | November 6, 2016 | Bill Sanderson

[nickcarraway]

Vincent van Gogh purportedly regarded the pastoral scene of wheat, cypress trees and mountains as one of his “best” landscapes — but a journalist insists the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s $95 million masterpiece is a fake.

James Grundvig’s new book, “Breaking van Gogh,” claims the painting titled Wheat Field with Cypresses was really made in the late 1800s by Emile Schuffenecker, “a third-level impressionist painter” and suspected forger.

Look carefully at the canvas in Gallery 822 on the Met’s second floor, and you can see some of the signs of a forgery, Grundvig says.

[vetvetdoug]

After the Nazis plundered the art in Europe, I wouldn’t doubt that many of the paintings in museums recovered are fakes and the originals in private collections.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Interesting, but wrong.
The idea that you can assign a precise methodology and technique to a personality as “fluid” as Van Gogh is demanding a bit much.

[dp0622]

It’s in my bedroom. I took down the one of Farrah Fawcett

[Vendome]

And I’m Thomas Crown...

[houeto]

Libtards duped out of $95M bump? LMAO BUMP!

[right way right]

Looks fake to me.

[Leaning Right]

I can relate. I bought what I thought was an original Rembrandt at a yard sale for $25,000. Years later my little nephew noticed that it was really a paint-by-numbers project.

[Liz]

Wheat-Field-with-Cypresses

[Liberty Ship]

I agree. Looks like a fake. In addition to the arguments cited, the patterns in the sky are all wrong.

[Liz]

In his memoir, director Thomas Hoving talked about buying for the Met the sixth-century BC Greek vase, the Euphronios Krater in 1972. It looked a million dollars, and cost it. He called it the "hot pot" and said it had probably been smuggled out of Italy. It had been and, in 2006, the Met ate humble pie and returned it.

[lee martell]

I would be somewhat surprised if that cerulean blue or ultramarin blue could remain so bright and chromatic after almost 125 years. I would expect more pigment to have dried up or been absorbed into the gesso base.

It’s possible that this began as Van Gogh piece that was completed after he died in 1890 and brother Theo died the year after that. With both gone, there was no one to stop Theo’s widow from finding and hiring someone to complete certain projects.

[BykrBayb]

That used to be on our fridge when I was a kid. I thought my sister painted it.

[a fool in paradise]

The dogs playing poker should’ve been the giveaway clue.

[Mr Radical]

If they can’t tell the difference ...
then what does it matter!

[BykrBayb]

Btw, my brother added the Ethiopian baby under the green blanket, and I added the alien baby popping out of the pineapple.

[IronJack]

I've got a portrait of Elvis Presley on stretched velvet that was painted by Tintoretto. I'll sell it to the Met for a million in cash.

But not a dime less ...

[faithhopecharity]

you took down your Farah Fawcett picture?
may I have it?
(is she nekked?)

[dfwgator]

Does her hair still spell out “S-E-X”?

[BykrBayb]

I don't know who painted the mommy pineapple alien to the left of my baby pineapple alien. At the time, I thought I did pretty good, and couldn't understand why my sister got mad. Now I see my alien baby wasn't as good as my brother's Ethiopian baby. Oh well. Glad to see it still fetched a good price.