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1 posted on 12/15/2003 4:03:43 PM PST by presidio9
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I didn't hear that.
2 posted on 12/15/2003 4:04:38 PM PST by Nitro
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bought at a flea market 12 years ago for $1,800,

That must have been some high class Flea Market

3 posted on 12/15/2003 4:13:03 PM PST by Michael.SF. ('By any means necessary' - Black Panthers,Chomsky, Clintonista's, the Democrats)
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Van Gogh found at flea market

I didn't know he was lost.

4 posted on 12/15/2003 4:14:39 PM PST by aomagrat (IYAOYAS)
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Van Gogh Auction Postponed as Authenticity Checked

Fri Dec 12,12:31 PM ET

PORTETS, France (Reuters) - The auction of a newly discovered Van Gogh painting thought to be worth a small fortune has been postponed so that experts from Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum can check its authenticity.

The small town of Portets in southwestern France had been braced for a flood of visitors on Saturday, the day initially set to auction the painting of field workers which was bought at a flea market 12 years ago for 1,500 euros ($1,837). "The Van Gogh Museum offered late in the afternoon (on Thursday) to have another look at the painting, to carry out a fresh examination," auctioneer Eric Le Blay told Reuters.

Other experts and restorers say it is genuine, according to Le Blay, but the Van Gogh Museum has yet to deliver its verdict.

"In the interests of transparency, we prefer to postpone the sale. Based on the results, we will put the painting up for sale again," Le Blay said, adding he hoped the move would calm a wave of controversy that has erupted over the work's authenticity.

The small oil-on-wood painting depicting farm laborers under a heavy sky had been missing for close to a century when a eagle-eyed man spotted it in a second-hand market on the edge of Paris and noticed the signature "Vincent" in a corner.

An Italian laboratory identified its pigments as dating from the 19th century and said the colors were identical to other Van Gogh paintings and the signature at least a century old.

Another test showed the varnish also matched the type used by Van Gogh, who often painted flowers and fields.

Van Gogh expert Benoit Landais said he was convinced the work was an original. He told Le Blay it was painted in the Netherlands in 1883 and listed in an inventory made in 1890 after Van Gogh committed suicide. From 1894, it was lost.

Le Blay said earlier this week that bidding would start at 1.0-1.5 million euros but could reach double that. ($1=.8164 Euro)




7 posted on 12/15/2003 4:17:59 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (Fighting for Freedom and Having Fun)
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There are probably a few undiscovered works. He moved a number of times, but at his peak was painting sometimes three or four paintings a week.
I have long considered him to be one of the most brilliant minds ever. Torn and tortured by the war within, the battle between his head and his heart.
9 posted on 12/15/2003 4:21:30 PM PST by djf
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I went to a Flea Market yesterday and I bought a rare ash tray for $5. End of report...
10 posted on 12/15/2003 4:25:56 PM PST by tubebender (We've been married 47 years and she still doesn't put the toilet seat up for me...)
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I must relate this story.

About 6 weeks ago, I was in the south of France on business. I had a day of free time, and I and a colleague drove to Arles to scope out the van Gogh places.

I drove there and parked in the muni parking, and headed for the tourist office. There was a thirty-something dark-haired French woman at the desk. She made me for a Yank as soon as I walked in the door.

I said "I want to visit the house where van Gogh lived while he was here."

She said it is gone.

I said: "Perhaps you misunderstand. The house where van Gogh lived. How do I get there?"

Again she said it was no more.

I pressed.

Finally she said: "The Americans bombed it when they bombed the bridge that it stood close to." I said "Oops."

14 posted on 12/15/2003 4:40:29 PM PST by Pharmboy (Dems lie 'cause they have to...)
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Who pays $1800 for a painting at a flea market?
19 posted on 12/15/2003 4:50:19 PM PST by aruanan
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Ha! That's nothing. I bought a clown painting at a thrift shop with an authentic, original Woolworth's sticker for $1.49 still affixed on the back.

Now that's a find.
27 posted on 12/15/2003 6:14:30 PM PST by vikingchick
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His art belongs in the flea market along with Picasso's and many, many others'.
28 posted on 12/15/2003 6:16:14 PM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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I've been to the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Amazing stuff.

Vincent Bump.

29 posted on 12/15/2003 6:17:18 PM PST by DoctorMichael (Thats my story, and I'm sticking to it.)
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Starry, starry night.
Paint your palette blue and grey,
Look out on a summer's day,
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.

Shadows on the hills,
Sketch the trees and the daffodils,
Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
In colors on the snowy linen land.

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.

Starry, starry night.
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze, Reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue.
Colors changing hue, morning field of amber grain,
Weathered faces lined in pain,
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you,
But still your love was true.
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night,
You took your life, as lovers often do.
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you.

Starry, starry night.
Portraits hung in empty halls,
Frameless head on nameless walls,
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the strangers that you've met,
The ragged men in the ragged clothes,
The silver thorn of bloody rose,
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.

Now I think I know what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they're not listening still.
Perhaps they never will.

Don McLean

35 posted on 12/15/2003 6:42:46 PM PST by blam
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  VINCENT

Vincent, are you painting stars
to cover up your inner scars
and do you paint sunflowers bright
to help you through a lonely night
and do you paint your upstairs room
to lighten up that sullen tomb
and was not Theo's love enough
to carry you when times were tough
was a brush and palette knife
too big a burden for this life
the beauty you created lives
I wish you knew how much it gives
on every canvas lives your soul
your vibrant colors do console
quite immortal, now it seems
so far beyond your wildest dreams
the world loves you, Vincent, now
and your textured treasures they endow
                      by Fish Hawk

40 posted on 12/15/2003 7:22:10 PM PST by fish hawk (John 11:35 "Jesus Wept")
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