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Slyer
scriber:
The painting will be included in the catalogue
raisonne
of PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903) established by the WIDENSTEIN INSTITUTE,
September 21, 2004; letter of GUY WILDENSTEIN to art historian XAVIER
D'ALEYRAC DE COULANGES October 7, 2004. (Photo shown with letter)
Wildenstein Institute
57,Rue
La Boetie
Paris
8e,France Tel:01-45-61-61-61
Fax:01-45-61-61-45
artfakes.dk:
As clearly stated in the document from
Wildenstein (written in French, look further down) the picture will not be included in any
book to come. So this is quite the opposite of what the seller writes.
First of all the present material is an awful painting, a fiddle mend to
trick potential buyers to bid for the subject. What we can see here has
nothing to do with Paul Gauguin. Furthermore this is a distinct example
on how an unscrupulous seller is doing his best to swindle by making
buyers believe that the picture in question is approved by the
Wildenstein Institute as a genuine Gauguin even though quite the
opposite is the case. Naturally he hopes that buyers without any
sufficient knowledge of foreign languages do not understand the French
text.
Here
it is:
»Nous vous informont qu’après étude et en l’etat actuel de
nos connaissance nous n’avons pas l’intention, a ce jour, d’inclure
l’aeuvre ci-dessous reproduite :
Scene
avec cases et palmiers... «
Meaning:
After having studied the object shown below and as far as we can say for
now, we hereby state that we have no intention for the moment to include
this reproduction in any book to come:
»Scene with palms«.
The
expression »for the moment« is just a nice way of saying NO! We want
nothing to do with it. |
