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Admirers of Vincent Van Gogh got a tantalizing glimpse this week of an all-but-unknown painting by the great Dutchman. New York Herald Tribune Art Critic Emily Genauer, who lives in Croton, N.Y., had run across it one evening in the living room of a neighbor. The neighbor insisted on anonymity, but agreed to let Critic Genauer print a black & white reproduction in her Sunday column...
Although the picture, of two high-wheeled Tarascon Coaches, has been catalogued as an authentic Van Gogh and was mentioned by the artist in a letter to his brother, few art lovers have ever had a chance to see even so much as a photograph of it. Bought by an Italian sculptor who gave it to a friend from Montevideo, it had been kept most of the time since 1906 in a family vault in Uruguay...
...those who were not content to see a Van Gogh in smudgy black & white, there was testimony from the artist that the subject was one after his own color-hungry heart. Wrote Van Gogh in one of his last letters: "I have just painted that red and green vehicle in the courtyard of the inn ... a simple foreground of grey gravel, a background very very simple too, pink and yellow walls, with windows with green shutters and a patch of blue sky. The two carriages very brightly colored, green and red, the wheels -yellow, black, blue and orange...
Paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Gaugin, Manet, Matisse, Monet, Renoir, Picasso, Van Gogh, and Toulouse-Lautrec are included in the gift. Sculptures by Despiau and Maillol, and drawings by Guys, Matisse, Picasso, and Renoir also are listed in the bequest...
Among the paintings listed in the will are: "The Rehearsal," by Degas; "Nature a la Commode," by Cezanne; "The Racetrack at Deauville," by Dufy; "Poemes Barbares," by Gaugin; "Le Skating," by Manet; "Apples," by Matisse; and Van Gogh's self-portrait...