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‘Lost’ Van Gogh notebook stirs debate
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THE row over the discovery of a “lost” Vincent Van Gogh notebook took a dramatic new turn yesterday, with experts who back the find demanding a public debate with the Van Gogh Museum, which has dismissed it as a fake.
In a point-by-point rebuttal of the museum’s assessment of the sketchbook — apparently from the artist’s legendary stay in the French city of Arles — the experts also questioned its “monopoly” on deciding what is and is not by Van Gogh.
The main expert behind the find, Canadian art historian Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, hit back at their questioning of its authenticity, while British scholar Ronald Pickvance said there was no chance the 65 drawings were forgeries.
“These are absolutely OK, from one to 65,” he said. “End of song, end of story.”
Welsh-Ovcharov had earlier accused the museum of basing its verdict on photographs of drawings rather than properly examining 10 originals which she had brought to them.
Her book, “Vincent Van Gogh, the fog of Arles: the rediscovered sketchbook” detailing the find, was being published in six countries yesterday despite the controversy.
Her French publisher Le Seuil said: “To put an end to this controversy, we are offering the Van Gogh Museum the possibility of jointly organizing a public debate between experts.”
But the museum’s senior researcher Dr Louis van Tilborgh said on Wednesday that even after reading the book “we would not be changing our opinion. We think the author of the drawings is not Van Gogh but someone imitating him.”
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