New Van Gogh identified
Wednesday 24 February 2010
A painting of the Blute-Fin windmill in Monmartre, Paris which hangs in a Zwolle museum is the work of Vincent van Gogh, art experts have decided.
The painting was bought by museum director and collector Dirk Hannema from a Paris art dealer in 1975 for 6,500 francs (less than €1,000).
But, says the Volkskrant, he was reluctant to say the painting was a Van Gogh because he had earlier misidentified a forged Vermeer in what became one of the country´s biggest art scandals.
Hannema left the painting, dating from 1886, to the Museum de Fundatie he founded in Zwolle in his will.
© DutchNews.nl
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This is absolutely NOT a van Gogh, it is a bad copy of Manet/Monet/Renoir Vincent had his Dark Period in Holland and never painted faces like that.
By BGAJ (Ben) Rombouts | February 25, 2010 12:37 AM