Posted on 02/25/2010 12:56:03 PM PST by C19fan
A newly authenticated Van Gogh has gone on display 35 years after a discredited art collector bought it in Paris, convinced it was painted by the famed Dutch master but never able to prove it. Le Blute-Fin Mill was painted in 1886, according to Louis Van Tilborgh, curator of research at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
It was bought in 1975 by Dirk Hannema, who was known as a brilliant museum curator but a fool when buying for his own collection. When he died in 1984 he claimed to have seven Vermeers, several Van Goghs and a few Rembrandts.
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Also, if it's a Van Gogh, why did he sign it "Reuters"?
“Experts” are likely to overstate their expertise, given that it’s what earns them a living.
Anyone can be an art expert. Look at the idiots who claim Jackson Pollack was a genius.
However, Van Gogh was a genuine genius.
I pissed off more than a couple of art instructors and various snotty folks with derision of Pollack’s work.
Can there be higher praise than being “mocked by the art world?”
Have you heard how some scientists claim there is a hidden complex math code in Jackson’s work? It just really ticks me off that something a 3 year old could do is worth over 100 million dollars.
Hidden math code? Starts with $$$$? LOL! As we say way down South, “There ain’t no accountin’ for taste”
My theory has always been that Pollack was a truly brilliant artist who couldn't bear to part with any of his great works - so to raise cash he sold his drop cloths to the public. :)
If this article is true it means Jackson was a true genius who dated his work via a complex fractal pattern hidden in his work.
Heh. :)
I got a nice reaction from my professor about Picasso’s Gurnica. I still say it just sucks.
We had several class discussions about that one.
The Mondrian Stuff
always floors me.
ML/NJ
Nope, not a Ross. You can tell because the trees took him more than three brush strokes.
Park Place, $200 rent!
LOL!!!! Google Jackson Pollock and one of the image links that pops up is from DU!!!!! I clicked on it for hilarity’s sake and literally the second or third post goes something like “Dude, if you step back and look at the whole thing...” ROTFLMAO!!!!!
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