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If Schuff had been an artist of great stature, he would have pushed on, just like van Gogh had pushed against his mental and physical ailments and lack of money, and produced a massive oeuvre.

I'm sorry, have you MET artists? Or even just ... people? Van Gogh used painting as therapy, and produced a lot. Some can't create when they're in certain states of mind or heart. Can't. People. Are. Different. Weird, huh?

— Jan 10, 2022 01:07PM

Breaking van Gogh: Saint-Rémy, Forgery, and the $95 Million Fake at the Met

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"Van No"

no

— Jan 11, 2022 02:03PM

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The Van Gogh Museum should do a lot more

You gonna pay for that, boo?

— Jan 11, 2022 02:01PM

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"the artist must be dead"

I know. You've said this half a dozen times.

— Jan 11, 2022 01:55PM

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The author states that he has considered stealing a chip of paint from the work in question. Um, Met dear? Please ban this man from your premises.

— Jan 11, 2022 01:46PM

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Yes, I know about the FOIA request. This was all covered early on in the book.

— Jan 11, 2022 01:31PM

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What on EARTH does Titanic have too do with anything??

— Jan 11, 2022 01:30PM

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A landscape painting of such size and majesty

Wait - isn't is just a forgery by "a third-rate artist"? But it's still majestic?

— Jan 10, 2022 01:33PM

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In 1901, the year when Emile Schuffenecker would have forged Vincent’s work, the forger no longer could have had access to Tanguy’s paints and the special, custom-made ground pigments he had created for van Gogh, since Tanguy died in 1894.

Well, artisans have such things as apprentices, or journals - is it not possible that, especially given VVG's new fame, Tanguy might have taught the making, or left recipes?

— Jan 10, 2022 01:27PM

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Schuffenecker became so enthusiastic about his work that he decided to ‘improve’ on several other van Goghs that he felt were unfinished

*feels faint again*

— Jan 10, 2022 12:32PM

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the stunning works that he sent to Postmaster Roulin, who then rolled the still-damp canvases with the paint facing out, stacked four or five on top
of each other, inserted the rolls into shipping tubes, like architectural drawings...

I feel faint

— Jan 10, 2022 10:17AM

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