Award-winning Documentary | The Fake Van Gogh Paintings? | Real Crime
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Was the most expensive painting ever sold at auction a fake? This award-winning documentary explores the authenticity of the Sunflowers painting by Vincent van Gogh, bought in the late 1980s for a then record sum by a Japanese insurance company.
In 2002, the painting went on public exhibition alongside an undisputedly genuine version of Sunflowers, raising once again the questions so vividly posed in this film.
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Jo Bonger (Van Gogh’s sister-in-law) did Vincent and her husband a huge justice in cataloguing and marketing his work. What an amazing woman to turn his work from rags to riches and make his work internationally renowned.
I'm amazed more wasn't said about it not being signed.
Big art, like big oil and big anything is full of corruption....
It''s about money. Christie's is protecting profits/reputation and the Japanese are protecting face/investment. It matters if it is real.
It's not so much a question of the authenticity of the works , but rather the experts . Which is the fake ?
If one can't distinguish between an "authentic" painting, and "fake", what difference does it make?
Turpentine is not derived from sunflowers, as the American “expert” asserts. It comes from trees, mainly pines.
Some "expert" says that Sunflowers are used to produce turpentine, which is just nonsense. Turpentine is distilled from pine resin. And when that same "expert" talks about colors, it is also very subjective. Why do these people make things up?
That man scraping the paintings with that metal stick, i would fire him immediately.
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The owner should submit the painting to a modern forensic study.
Richard Rodriguez is believable...
I don't know if sunflower oil is perhaps used in painting (probably is) but I know turpentine comes from the bark of pine trees, not from sunflowers.
I cannot STAND to see others getting filthy rich off someone else's art work that never made the ACTUAL ARTIST RICH!!!!! Artists struggle most of their lives and careers making these amazing artworks, barely scraping by the whole time. It's always when they're long gone, is their art is worth something; making others millionaires. Smfh I'd rather set my paintings on fire before I go than to have someone else profit off them, especially greedy people who are already wealthy.
at one point, in this film, there's a guy who says that the yellows are painted over the brown and Vincent didn't do this, well artists experiment, and it looks like VG was trying something different. Also, counting flower petals is pointless since artists do pretty much whatever they want.
It's really gross that the Van Gogh Museum would agree to keep quiet and be obstructive about the Japanese painting in return for a building. I think most collections would do the opposite and speak out loudly.
Art prices gone wild. Foolishness.
There's a lad down in Dorset who does excellent copies of old Vinny G. He doesn't pretend they are the OGs though but his landscapes and still lifes are FR lit
Brilliant video! Thank you.
Is it not possible that he sold the initial painting and as a result it wasn’t in his possession when he died for his sister in law to record it.