by Jon Lackman | 10 August 2006 | Crime, Modern
From The Age (Australia): “The National Gallery of Victoria has rejected claims that a $25 million Vincent Van Gogh painting it has lent to an exhibition in Scotland is a fake. Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper quoted a number of experts who doubt the authenticity of the painting, known as either Portrait of a Man or Head of a Man. According to the newspaper, art critics and historians in Britain have identified a series of anomalies in the painting. Critics say it is the only horizontal portrait attributed to the Dutch master and has greater clarity than other Van Gogh works from the same period. The painting is not mentioned in any of the artist’s letters. It was painted on canvas and mounted on a panel, also unusual for Van Gogh.”
