Mad man
Posted on 01/31/2025 10:57:53 AM PST by nickcarraway
You never know what you might find at garage sales and lockup auction - as one lucky antiques collector found out.
A painting bought for less than $50 at a garage sale in Minnesota might be a lost work by Dutch post-impressionist Vincent van Gogh.
Measuring 45.7 centimeters by 41.9 centimeters (18 inches by 16.5 inches), the painting, dated 1889, is believed to have been created during the artist’s stay at the Saint-Rémy-de-Provence psychiatric hospital in France just months before he took his own life, aged 37.
Van Gogh’s “lost” fisherman painting
The painting depicts a fisherman wearing a hat and smoking a pipe apparently repairing his net on an empty beach. The artists has titled the work, Elimar, inscribed in the bottom right corner.
Determining the authenticity of the painting has been a long and drawn-out process. LMI Group International, a New York-based data science firm specializing in art authentication, assembled a team of 20 experts in chemistry, art history and patent law to validate the artwork.
Scientific analysis revealed encouraging signs - the paint pigments and canvas weave were in line with the kind of materials used during the years Van Gogh was active (1881–1890). The bright red pigment PR-50, which was patented in 1883, helps date the work to the 19th century.
LMI explain that Van Gogh regularly painted “translations” of works by other artists and this one appears to be his take on the work of Danish artist Michael Ancher (1849-1927), who painted several studies of fishermen.
“Van Gogh painting” bought for $50 in Minnesota
The canvas was bought by an unsuspecting antiques collector at a Minnesota garage sale in 2016.
The painting still needs to be formally attributed to Van Gogh by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. If that happens, it’s value will skyrocket with some estimates gauging its value at a figure around the $15 million mark.
However, the Van Gogh museum has already stated that they don’t think it is authentic. The painting’s previous owner took it to the Dutch capital for evaluation in December 2018 when the center decided against attributing it to the tortured artist.
That’s what a commie would think.
I like the bulldog with the ace in his toe.
” If that happens, it’s value will skyrocket...”
Its. ITS! Where are the editors?
“Whaddya want from me?”
I wonder if it was from Louie Anderson’s (the comedian) childhood home. Here is a comedy routine based on the true story of the FBI coming to his home when he was a child. Looking for his older brother. He doesn’t say what the crime was - but the internet makes a good case that he was involved in the largest art heist of the time back in Minnesota.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPXbdzjWzXg&t=3s
“So the FBI shows up and knocks on the door. I know - THE FBI! I mean I can understand the BATF, but....”
That one dog is smelling the fish. I would take my sister’s dog in the boat with me. It didn’t take me long to figure out after I had stopped at a few of my favorite places to fish. The ones where I caught fish she would get excited as we drove up to it.
Only if by ‘commie” you mean Christian.
No decent person would knowingly cheat someone holding a yard sale.
it was done by someone in an asylum who thought he was Van Gogh... still makes it a Van Gogh though.
Yes, as long as the artist identified as Van Gogh , sounds legit. 😉
They captured the dogs perfectly. Well done.
Exactly what came to my mind.
I like that painting. One dog goes one way and the other dog goes the other way.
:^) I couldn’t remember the place or the name, took me some time, or rather, it took some tries using two different search engines, to find the darned thing. The article where that shot originates notes that, thanks to our species’ brainless pursuit of memes from all over the Earth, the village and the church where it’s located has seen a nice boom in tourism.
On an entirely different note, another such meme site:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/zen00zero/261388306
“I sense great vulnerability. A man-child crying out for love. An innocent orphan in the post-modern world.”
Not necessarily. In most cases it would simply be a "unilateral mistake," which does not give either party a right of rescission like a mutual mistake does.
“I am a van Gogh fan.”
It’s weird because I pretty much hate Van Gogh, except for some reason I love “Starry Night”.
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