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The letter of the secretary of the Expertise Instituut , Margrit de Sabloniere, to Jan van Gelder from 10 June 1958 :

In this letter Mrs.Sabloniere ( a pseudonym for
Margaretha Catharina Stigter, after marriage in 1931 Margaretha Bicker Caarten (1905 -1979 )asks the professor in arthistory at the University of Utrecht to expertise the painting .
As Mrs. Sabloniere had a very close contact with Vincent Willem van Gogh, the sun of the brother of Vincent,and even became his private secretary
after the war,and considered herself also an important Vincent-expert,as proven by a little book she published about Vincent, she joined the following odd sentence to the invitation to make an expertise for 75 Dutch guilders :
" I hope that you received the painting Ras now . Thanks heaven this long pierlala( lange pierlala in Dutch) has more chance to be false than real. Mrs. Ras was already at the exposition in 1956 warned by a visitor that he painting could possibly not be a " Van Gogh "
So she is warned.

Here now follows my translation into Enlish of the report of Jan Van Gelder from July 1958 :

As promised now i join the awkward expertise of Jan van Gelder of july 1958 .
As a professional reader of articles about art, I worked as a scientific worker 1 year for Prof.dr.Jan Aler, professor of esthetics and philsophy of art at the University of Amsterdam when I was in my twenties, I will comment of course in a later contribution on this horrible piece of art-evaluation and will try to give an objektive critic based on logic and science.
As a present of the old year, it is the last day of 2011 , I wiil also join a picture of a peasant woman from Nuenen, situated around the end of 1884 and beginning of 1885 stylistically and surely from the hand of Vincent van Gogh, though unsigned. Consider this as a worldpremiere of the
show of this tiny but precious painting.
If I have time I will also comment on it in the new year and my wish for 2012 is that finally the artworld realises that we better change the way of expertising works of Vincent and stop giving that awful museum, called Van Gogh Museum,the complete "carte blanche".
A HAPPY 2012 !!!!

Philip Silbernberg

The awkward expertise and denial of Jan Van Gelder,
translated into Eglish will be joined now to this contribution.

Sorry wrong illustratons !
I,ll try again

Sorry Here comes the "expertise" of Jan van Gelder

Sorry here finally the awkward expertise of Jan van Gelder

Well it is the end of the year 2011 and as a new years card I joined above a nice peasant-portrait by several people attributed to Vincent van Gogh. A small study, as Vincent would say, so unsigned, but very powerful painted from Nuenen , 1884/1885.
A worldpremiere of the show of this tiny miracle in oilpaint.Of course I will never ask The Van Gogh Museum about an opinion anymore. They are too stupid, superficial and unscientific and they hav not enough respect for the painted past!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND MY WISH FOR 2012 :

VAN HEUGTEN AND VAN TILBORGH, the two awful and completely worthless Vincentexperts for drawings and paintings IN THE PRISON FOR WHITECOLLARCRIME!!
Philip Silbernberg

Of course in the new year I will comment on the
bad expertise of Van Gelder , the even worse one ofVan Tilborgh and the trap made by the club of Dutch arthistory criminals Van Gelder and others to lure the poor M.Ras in a disaster. Imstead of a proud owner of a real Vincent- painting . she became the owner of a worthless piece, thanks to the corrupt machinery of nast arthistorians in the fifties.

Pilip Silbernberg

As a optimistic new year wish I joined here above a nice little painting of a farmerlady from Nuenen by several knowlegable people attributed to Vincent van Gogh, ainted aoun end 1884, beginning 1885.

The opinion of the Van Gogh Museum does not interest me anymore , because they are too stupid, too superficial and too unscientific.
My wish for 2012 is that the Vincent van Gogh- expertise comes in the hands of wise and knowledgable people who respect art and people who find Vincent van Gogh- paintings and also can admit their mistakesand can handle critical standpoints in productive way instead of underestimating there scientific adversaries. With these functionaries appointed by the Dutch State these qualities are
not available.
Philip Silbernberg

The devil is in the details :

Of course I will in the new year go on with the
critical evaluations of the positions of Van Gelder and Van Tilborgh and also about the trap by the Dutch arthistorians in the fifties of the 20th.century who lured the poor Mrs. Ras, proud owner of a real Vincent-painting from the Hague-period , into a trap with the trick of an expertise and a warning of a person who prefered to stay anonymous, his motivations could probably no support the daylight, that her treasure could possibly be not authentic.
That was the grateful attitude of these whitecollarcriminals for the fact that the family Ras was so friendly and nice to deliver the painting in Amsterdam for the here above mentioned exposition.
If she would not have done that the painting would still be considered as authentic.
Very sour and significant of te kinnesinne-mentality in this too tiny country .

Philip Silbernberg