In the banking unit in Athens, kept the picture, which, according to some experts, may be the last work of Vincent van Gogh

In the banking unit in Athens, kept the picture, which, according to some experts, may be the last work of Vincent van Gogh. Cloth belonged to recently deceased Greek veteran of World War II, the Greek Resistance Movement party.

In addition to paintings, was discovered the outline of the album, also presumably made by van Gogh. In the event that the author of the picture is confirmed, it will be the third well-known portrait of Doctor Gachet, met the artist. Paul Gachet was van Gogh's doctor in the last few months of his life, therefore, possible that the pattern found in Athens, the artist - one of the last works, written shortly before his suicide.

So far, only two were known portrait of Doctor Gachet painted by Van Gogh - one of them is stored in the Museum of Orsay in Paris, the other was purchased by a major Japanese industrialist and collector at Christie's auction in 1990 for 48 million pounds .

As the owner of Pippi Doretta paintings, canvas, owned by her father, caused great interest of major museums and auction houses and will soon be communicated more provenansa pictures, after which no doubt will be authored by Van Gogh. She added that the detective story about the work started in France, where it had been confiscated from Jewish families during the fascist occupation of the country. Then, when Hitler's troops in April 1941go occupied Greece, the picture came to Athens for an exhibition of masterpieces seized. In 1944, she received a trophy father Doretty Pippi - Meletisom, one of the most prominent participants in the partisan movement in Greece. For a long time, the family, which kept the picture, no idea of its true value. Only recently, Doretta Pippi asked the head of the restoration of the National Gallery of Greece, who saw the work, said that this may be the product of the late van Gogh. Further examination confirmed this attribution.

Given the prevalence of counterfeit works van Gogh at the art market, the painting still has a lot of research before it is proved to be genuine. But now know that if in the near future is not identified the original owner of the painting, which she had been confiscated by the Nazis, and his descendants did not try to return it, the work of the Greek laws, will remain the property of Doretty Pippi. According to preliminary estimates of experts, the cost of painting (in the case of confirmation of authorship) may be 100 million dollars (about 50 million pounds).

Source: The Guardian - www.guardian.co.uk