Word: goghs
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...Their existence was a state secret, and Piotrovsky himself did not see any of them until 1992. Piotrovsky plans to put 70 of the paintings on view in a major exhibition next March. He gave out no list, but among them are thought to be works by Van Gogh, Monet and Renoir. The star of the show -- as far as anyone knows -- is to be one of Edgar Degas's finest paintings, listed as "presumed destroyed" in studies written since 1945 and known only through a black-and-white photograph: Place de la Concorde (1875), stolen from the Gerstenberg collection...
Moreover, it is hard to lose money selling a baseball team, in part because there are probably more major Van Gogh paintings floating around than available big league franchises. The Orioles were auctioned off for a record $173 million last year, an increase of more than $100 million from their purchase price in 1988. Even the hapless Seattle Mariners, who have had only two winning seasons in their 17-year history, were successively sold for $13 million in 1981, $76 million in 1989 and $125 million in 1992. There are four or five serious bidders for the hand-to-mouth...
...such student, Babak Fardin '96, has never been to the Fogg. "I don't know much about the arts, but I'd be totally interested in seeing the Picasso and Van Gogh works," Fardin says. "Not knowing the significance of the artwork impedes people from visiting the Fogg," the adds...
...dahling, shall we get a Rembrandt or a Van Gogh? They don't have them. We'll settle for a Warhol. It'll look perfect in the place of the passe Robert Doisneau...
Every museum that proudly displays a Van Gogh has reason to be nervous. Curators in Amsterdam, preparing a definitive catalog for publication in the year 2001, have concluded that around 50 of the world's 900-odd Van Gogh's, or one in every 230, are forged or misattributed. Among the fakes identified so far: a seascape in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek in Copenhagen and a self- portrait in the Austrian National Galley in Vienna...