Portrait of Vincent van Gogh
Although the most famous artist in the world, Vincent van Gogh wrote to brother Theo that he would like to establish a community of artists, this is as close as he ever came to the "Garden of the east". Instead of sailing to Batavia, he instead cut off the ear and slid slowly into depression while painting the brilliant works that person was still interested in buying.
Based on the number of times "authentic" van Gogh's paintings have been on sale in years in Indonesia one might conclude that, in fact, it came to Java and shot himself in a rice terrace, not a cornfield with crows in the south of France. These miracle of masterpieces that appeal especially to the gullible and greedy, inevitably come with the same story from -. The discovery of an ancient collection in an abandoned plantation area
The most public and certainly outrageous example of this scam almost succeeded make the big time in November 2000 when a sale auction, including "original" works not only by van Gogh but also Chagall, Renoir and Pissarro became the artistic event of the season. With estimates in millions, the event was to take place in one of the most prestigious hotels in the city and opened by the First Lady.
The ultimate fantasy land for a stopover just days before it was to take place after the local and international media have noted little or no work, even far looked like works of their alleged creators and sounded the alarm. He was, of course, still a massive national embarrassment that he had conducted so far not detected in the first place. As usual, no one was ever held to the task.
Surprisingly the source of these rumors are based on fact while for Vincent van Gogh, Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso never visited Jakarta, their paintings did. This took place in 1936 when the (Kunstkring ) Batavian Art Circle mounted the exhibition Masterpieces in a building better known under the former Bureau of Immigration and Buddha Bar. The owner of this important collection of modern paintings was the owner of the colonial plantation and industrial P. A. Regnault (1868-1954). Before you start hunting in the old plantation homes, but please note that all Van Gogh paintings including Starry Night Rhone have been taken into account and return to Europe. Look no miracles and you will never be fooled.