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...have great force-enough to compete with war pictures and even neon signs. That may well be the reason for its critical success. Fifty years ago, critics were so intent on judging an artist's skill that they misjudged such unskilled but forceful painters as Gauguin and Van Gogh. For better or worse, a lot of modern critics now rate forcefulness first...
...international product. Among those who contributed most to it were six expatriate Jews: Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Ossip Zadkine, Jacques Lipchitz, Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine. Philadelphia Art Collector Albert C. Barnes once bought 50-odd Soutines at a swoop, called him "a far more important artist than Van Gogh...
...time-honored way of deciding the authenticity of a work of art is to call in a few experts to pass on it. But experts may disagree, as Cinemagnate William Goetz knows all too well. Last week Goetz was the proud possessor of a Van Gogh painting which had been certified not by experts but by detectives-T-men of the U.S. Treasury...
Goetz's Van Gogh, entitled Sluay by Candlelight (TIME, June 6, 1949 et seq.), had been bitterly debated by top art experts of both the U.S. and Europe. Some declared it was genuine, others were convinced that it was forged. A jury of specialists appointed by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum reported that the picture was suspiciously "strident in color, weak in drawing and uncertain in the modeling of the head" (TIME...
...paint was at least 60 years old. That was a major point for Goetz since it dated the painting from the days when the artist was alive, unknown, and of no interest to fakers or collectors either. Moreover, graphology experts ruled that the writing on the canvas was Van Gogh's-he formed his Vs, Ts and eights in peculiar ways that forgers could easily not have noticed. Finally, the T-men traced a mark of ownership on the back of the picture to an Arles pastor named Salles, who is known to have befriended Van Gogh...