Experts from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, confirmed the authenticity of the picture "Mill Blyut-Fin" (1886) from the collection of the Municipal Museum of the City of Zwolle

Experts from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, confirmed the authenticity of the picture "Mill Blyut-Fin" (1886) from the collection of the Municipal Museum of the city of Zwolle. Director of the institution Keuning, Ralph (Ralph Keuning) said that the experts carried out a thorough investigation, and now author of Van Gogh's "no doubt».

In 1975, a valuable painting has acquired the founder of the museum in Zwolle Hannema Dirk (Dirk Hannema). He paid for his Parisian antiquary of 6.5 thousand francs (less than 1000 euros), but I was sure that this is a genuine creation of Van Gogh, and so immediately insured it for the equivalent of 35 thousand euros.

Specialists in Van Gogh did not share the enthusiasm Hannema - after all this work is not typical of the wizard. Besides the negative impact this has had a dubious reputation and the very Hannema. In 1938, as director of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, he acquired several works that consider the work of the famous Dutch Jan Vermeer (Jan Vermeer). It subsequently emerged that this forgery.

«Mill Blyut-Fin" Hannema kept in the house until his death in 1984, and then for a quarter of a century had lain, forgotten by everyone in the repository Museum in Zwolle. Representatives of the museum several times turned to specialists from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, so that they inspected the painting and confirmed or denied its authenticity, but refused. In the end, experts still agreed to the study.

in favor of the authorship of Van Gogh evidenced by the fact that the artist has written several other pictures showing this mill. Besides Blyut-Fin was not far from the apartment's brother Vincent, Theo, with whom he often visited during his stay in Paris from March 1886 until the spring of 1887-th.

more detailed study showed that the materials used for writing, "Mills", and the size of the canvas (55 x 38 cm) are similar to those of Van Gogh used for other works of the Paris period. The same can be said of the fiber of the canvas, priming and Technology writing pieces on neprosohshem background. In addition, on the back of fabric specialists discovered the stamp of the Paris supplier of goods for artists Rey et Perrot, whom van Gogh made regular purchases.

Now "Mill Blyut-Fin" is exhibited in one of the halls of the Municipal Museum of the city of Zwolle.

Material prepared Ekaterina Guseva, AI

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