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Re: The sad story about modern Vincent van Gogh expertise
Bericht door philip silbernberg »LOUIS VAN TILBORH: THE FOOL ON THE HILL:
"Might is right"
Finally i will spend some words to the report of Van Tilborgh :
So we had to recall four elements, of which of course the element of the signature was of main importance as that element was indicated by the third oeuvrecatlog as fundamental for putting the Glaneuse in the section "rejected works".
1) The signature on the Glaneuse :
Van Tilborgh says that the signature " does not equal exactly the one of Vincent van Gogh". This is strange enough a contradiction with the observation of his foolish predecessor Van Gelder who observed the exact opposite by suggesting " that the signature was a painted copy of a signature on one of the drawings from the Etten-period, published in the beginning of the 20.th century from the Hidde Nyland-collection".
An explication for this criptic formulation of Van Tilborgh is easy to understand. As the guy had the painting in front of his nose it was easy
to see that the signature was not added later( UV-light!), so he had to hide this fact and invented another rather ridiculous argument to falsify the original signature. Now it was suddenly "not exactly the same as the signature of Vincent".
Van Tilborgh is a master in inventing things with a unlimited fantasy, mainly caracterised by a complete false observation of facts. Here Van Tilborgh gives the impressiion that Vincent signed always in the same way and that there exists an exact signature of the painter. This is pure nonsense and every schooled graphologist can explain us that a signature is hardly ever the same, but dependent of mood,circumstances, age and other psychological facts.
So we can without any problem dismiss this argument of Van Tilborgh as pure fantasy, nonsense and graphologically incorrect.
2) "The colour-scheme " is different.( Van Tilborgh):
As I already explained before , here Van Tilborgh repeats the incorrect argument and stupid generalisation made by Van Gelder. As I already
remarked before Vincent had in The Hague-period a rather bright palet and was as a pupil of the Hague School and surrounded by a lot of Hague-School painters,influenced by them. As I said he was even a pupil of Anton Mauve who had a very light palet and used bright and light colours.
Also the fact that Vincent was not a painter of the romantic school but just the opposite, meant that he went outside in the nature of The Hague to paint in the summer and was dependent of the light of the sun and the time of the day to paint his colours and as he was a realist and pure colourist he tried indeed to reflect these factors in his painting.
The generalisation of Van Gelder, and in his steps Van Tilborgh is based on the general view that Vincent in the Dutch period should have had a somber and dark palet, which is absolute nonsense, because in the summertime on a nice day, when the sun was shining,as the strong and beautiful cast shadow , a typical Vincent technique, in the painting shows the impressionistic painter can only reproduce the colours offered to him by nature.
In this case ocre for the landscape, dunes, yellow for the wheat the woman carries and blue for the sky.
Also a painting from the summer 1885 in Nuenen of Vincent of a wheatshelf shows more or less the same colour-scheme, yellow, ocre , blue and putting the Glaneuse ( 1883) next to the Wheatshelf(1885) shows a remarkable similarity, even in the way the two works are painted. This painting is in the Kroeller-Moeller Museum in Otterloo and a serious research could prove these facts.
3) 3) "The landscape " I see hills " is not compatible with The Hague, Brabant or Drente ".(Van Tilborgh).
Here Van Tilborgh repeats the wrong observation of Van Gelder again, repeating even the wrong historical evolution of Vincent.
A correct formulation would be The Hague , Drente, Brabant.
This is a very silly argument, because here Van Tilborgh shows again his unlimited gift of fantasy and seeing things no one else can see.
Of course veryone who has eyes to see and knows the dunes in the South of Holland can recognise in this landscape a pure dunelandscape.
Dunes can be rather high and in the surroundings of the Hague were rather steep hilly dunes.
Also the landscape around the Hague from the time of Vincent was different from the time now, because the enormous urbanisation of The Hague has destroyed a lot of dunes and untouched nature, as Vincent remarks even in his letters to Theo from the period. He searched the untouched nature and loved to paint there, as he describes in his letters the roughness and natural beauty of Loosduinen. He looked there for Arenrapers( Glaneurs) litterally described in his letters from the period the Arenraapster ( Glaneuse) was painted. This argument is sickening in its stupidity and incorrectness!No serious Vincent-expert from the past has seen or better "not seen " what Louis Van Tilborgh sees here and Albert Plasschaert was living in the period Vincent painted the Glaneuse and saw no problem in the landscape, nor the scientific working Van Beselaere, who very correct situated the Glaneuse in the surroundings of The Hague!
4) " The Brushstroke is different".
Here Van Tilborgh repeats a wrong observation of Van Gelder again, but does not explain this observation. So it is an opinion, not expained by facts.
Lets go back to Albert Plasschaert who knew the work of Vincent as no other probably as a painter and as the director of Oldenzeel from 1908-1912: