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Vincent van Gogh: Matters of Identity (Paperback)
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Vincent van Gogh: Matters of Identity (Paperback)
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The revelation of a misidentified face in a photograph-once thought
to be Vincent, now known to be Theo van Gogh-leads to a novelesque
story of revised art history Full of surprising anecdotes, this
book tells the story of the discovery in 2018 that one of only two
known photographs of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is, in fact, of
his brother, Theo. The detective-style narrative continues from
there to Samuel Delsaut, who found two drawings attributed to Van
Gogh in 1958. The archives of the Delsaut family revealed details
casting doubt on the authenticity of these drawings, along with
abundant correspondence between Samuel's son and the son of Dr.
Paul Gachet, who cared for Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise. A real-life
lesson in historical criticism, this book, beautifully illustrated
with reproductions of Van Gogh's work, has resonance with our
contemporary predicament distinguishing information from rumor,
journalism from propaganda. Distributed for Mercatorfonds
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