Comment by DOMINIQUE JANSSENS : "the daughter of the inn-keeper have seen that he was blessed" DOMINIQUE JANSSENS should have said: "the daughter of the inn-keeper saw that he was injured" ( "blessé" in French is "injured" in English )
Anyone having a good connaissance of the style and way of painting and his use of the brushes and hues in the choice of colour can see that the painting in question is not from Van Gogh. Cela saute aux yeux.
Regardless of all the hypes, his best works are not his sunflowers. Van Gogh was a colorist. His irises are much more interesting and colorful. His best pieces are some of his landscapes, especially his panoramic ones. He had got to a point that applying colors were done instinctively. There is no discord in his landscapes. When you think too much about what colors to use, the result turns out rather cold. You should have something of your mood and personality in the work, otherwise all the works turn out like the model. That is the goal of classical training. Assembly line?
Personal I've always loved his trees the most. I'd highly suggest checking out Erin Hanson, she's very inspired by Gogh but almost takes his concepts to the extream. Her style is called "open impressionism," which she created. It's almost like mosaic or stained glass windows in paint. Her use of color in landscapes rivals Gogh in my opinion. Edit: you might like her "Dance of Irises"
Did he really shoot himself? Or was he shot accidentally by youths playing with a pistol? I think many paintings that are considered "fakes" still are original Van Goghs.
Who said” Let’s hope it’s a fake” after the auctioneer said an export license would be applied for? Fiona.....? Beware: much of the information is out of date. Theo died from syphilis related complications. It’s possible VVG was accidentally shot. 29:15. Is that Philip Mould?
Syphillis was a widespread scourge back then. As Theo and Vincent had visited brothels together it seems likely V. also suffered from syphillis and also from associated dementia and anxiety about the progression of disease.
Why don't they test fragments of the backings' wood and cloth to determine possibly if the paintings are of the era? At least that might exclude more modern fakes. From this distance I would think the painting of main interest here is not authentic by reason of the differences in vividness and proportions, but I have no expertise. I am reasonably good at detecting frauds in my own area.
The problem is, the fake is not a modern one. It was either made right after his death or during his very last days, by someone who knew that he had painted 14 sunflowers.
The Dr.Gachet is not a fake. It is an unfinished painting. Every artist including great masters, paint mistakes, bad paintings, reject or stop painting a work. Works by artists in thick paint can be figured out, by curves in strokes and brush angles in those curves. It is just like penmanship, no two people are the same, because of our bones, muscles and hands are different. Especially, when making quick strokes.
I like the "fake Gachet". If that's not a Van Gogh then Dr Gachet had a peculiar talent for painting hands in the particular style of Vincent Van Gogh. That's all I can say
I agree 100%. In any art form, not everything the artist creates is a master piece. If a musician writes and records some great songs, that does doesn't mean that every song on every album is going to be great.
That might be the most monotonous narration I've ever heard in a professional documentary. I still learned a few things though, even if it was a bit of a drudge.
Money, opinion, reputation, and egos. Believe what you will, but I'm no shill. It's a copy. Between the time it was made and the time it was sold, it became a fake, and then a forgery.
All you need to know is that he was the forerunner of the expressionists, due to his fast and furious brushwork. Also, he killed himself or was killed (a new documentary looks into this) when he was getting really good. He started painting dark, somber pictures in muddy and brown colors till he saw the other artists' works in Paris. It was then that his genius started to show. His fame is due to the effort and labor of his sister in law who translated all his letters to Theo in English. The fact that his life was full of tragedies; cutting his own ear for example, also helped. "Founder of Expromanticism".
I have enormous respect for forgers who can dupe so-called experts and connoisseurs. Art is grossly overpriced. In a real world Vincent's sunflowers would fetch no more than $1,000.
I have a fantasy where I go back in time, meet Van Gogh and get him to paint 2 pictures for me ( one to keep and the other to sell). After spending time with him he would hopefully write about the encounter in his diary and hence give provenance when the painting comes to auction. Picasso would be my next destination in his blue period. What about everyone else? Which artist would you go back in time to meet and ask to paint for you?
I guess killing tens of thousands of the Japanese was not a tragedy, but a painting done in less than a couple of hours was! How and where our priorities are! Despite of the common belief that his sunflowers are his great paintings, it is not so. Some of them are muddy. His great works are his more colorful works. The auctioneers who make a tremendous profit love promoting that.
Yes, how can anyone say it's tragedy to lose a painting when hundreds of thousands of innocent people died or got sick from radiation even generations from the event.
