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Stańczyk by Jan Matejko; source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Stanczyk_Matejko.JPG
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the above images from here and here respectively are each of a painting of Dr Paul-Ferdinand Gachet by Vincent Van Gogh the first painting is in the hands of a Japanese industrialist, having been bought by him in 1990 for US$82.5M; the second is in the Musée d’Orsay, in Paris it’s now being suggested here via this, in a story reminiscent of an Eric Ambler novel, that there is a third version of the portrait about to burst on the art world the story is that a third version of the portrait existed and was stolen by the Nazis from a French family of Jews during WWII; the Nazis then transported it to Athens; next, in 1944, Meletis, a prominent Greek partisan, took possession of it during a raid on a German train carrying it; Meletis then kept it “in a safe place for years”; on his death, it passed into the hands of his daughter, Doretta Peppa Peppa claims that it has been authenticated as a genuine van Gogh according to the last link: As the identity of its Jewish owners has not been revealed, and no one has come forward to reclaim it, under Greek law it belongs to Peppa. Some experts have valued the work at $100m (about £50m).——

  • the above images from here and here respectively are each of a painting of Dr Paul-Ferdinand Gachet by Vincent Van Gogh
  • the first painting is in the hands of a Japanese industrialist, having been bought by him in 1990 for US$82.5M; the second is in the Musée d’Orsay, in Paris
  • it’s now being suggested here via this, in a story reminiscent of an Eric Ambler novel, that there is a third version of the portrait about to burst on the art world
  • the story is that a third version of the portrait existed and was stolen by the Nazis from a French family of Jews during WWII; the Nazis then transported it to Athens; next, in 1944, Meletis, a prominent Greek partisan, took possession of it during a raid on a German train carrying it; Meletis then kept it “in a safe place for years”; on his death, it passed into the hands of his daughter, Doretta Peppa
  • Peppa claims that it has been authenticated as a genuine van Gogh
  • according to the last link:

As the identity of its Jewish owners has not been revealed, and no one has come forward to reclaim it, under Greek law it belongs to Peppa. Some experts have valued the work at $100m (about £50m).

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