Word: gogh
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What if they gave an auction and nobody bid? When Vincent Van Gogh's Jardin a Auvers went on the block at Paris' posh George V Hotel, auctioneer Jacques Tajan brought the gavel down on a supposed bid of $6.4 million. After the sale, however, Tajan admitted he had merely pretended to have a buyer; in fact, not a single real offer was made. Why no takers? As Tajan put it, the painting has "an odor of sulfur" about it. Indeed, the 25-in. by 31-in. canvas has a long, troubled history. Supposedly painted by the penniless artist just...
Meanwhile, despite the assurances of the world's top Van Gogh experts, doubts about the painting's authenticity began to circulate among an international coterie of art enthusiasts. Stylistically, says Jean-Marie Tasset, art critic for the French daily Figaro, the serene canvas is "atypical" of the frenetic paintings made during the artist's last days. The central walkway is done in a pointillist manner virtually unprecedented in Van Gogh's late works...
...dispute. Some specialists trace it directly back to the painter's sister-in-law. Tasset and others claim the first owner was the art dealer Amedee Schuffenecker. That would raise serious questions: Schuffenecker was notorious for selling fake paintings, and his brother Claude-Emile, a friend of both Van Gogh's and Paul Gauguin's, was a skillful copyist of their works. Thus many doubters believe Jardin a Auvers was actually painted by Claude-Emile Schuffenecker (1851-1934). If so, its celebrity is a vindication of sorts for a painter little known in his lifetime and almost totally forgotten today...
...savored--whether he is discussing society, politics, or Diana herself, he leaves the reader enchanted by his supreme ability to convey his ideas with humor, grace and emotion. It is the little details that add so much flavor: "She laughed so hard she almost left me looking like Van Gogh...
Jeanne Calment, 121, isn't just the world's oldest living human. She's the world's oldest rapper. The acquaintance of Van Gogh has cut a record, Maitresse du Temps, in which she talks about her life over rap, techno and dance music. Some of the proceeds from the CD will go toward buying a minibus for her nursing home. Next up for Calment is, of course, a video...