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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I remember seeing a video of Sister Wendy talking about Rothko. She talked about it like it was magic.
Can't argue with the Classics.
Sometimes, with ‘modern’ art (which can be more than a hundred years old), you have to see the originals. Albers’ “Homage to the Square” paintings don’t look like much in reproduction, but the originals just kind of hang there in midair and glow. There’s no comparison.
Please!
ML/NJ
I’m seeing that and want to click on the “Street View” link.
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