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Description: Vincent's
painting of "SIEN AND HER BABY"
This is not to be taken as offensive, but it totally amazes me how
many experts that email me with their inquiries on work of art that I list on eBay,
converse only once, or sometime twice before they make up their minds that I am
totally wrong and that they are right. As you know, most my art work that I have
collected, and that I put on ebay, has absolutely no provenance and mostly with
after signatures, and just my opinions and attributions.
Resulting from my studies from the past 20 some years, let me give you
my own opinion of my abilities, in finding undiscovered works of art. Art by different
Masters, my insights, of being able to see, already discovered pieces of art works,
in museums and private collection, with wrongful attributions and authentication from
different art experts. There is a lot of art that has been authenticated and attributed to
lesser artists, other than the rightful artists, by the experts of that time period.
Let me put it to you this way, to make a long story short, all the drawings &
descriptive art works are out of a van Gogh books that I used, describing
his works of art of that period, 1881 - 1883, when he was living with Sein
and studying art at the Hague under his art professor, Mauve. When Mauve and
Tersteeg, found that Vincent was living with a prostitute and her illegitimate children,
they told his brother Theo, and also his father, Theodorus van Gogh,
and then all of his support money stop that Theo was sending, as little as it was.
Vincent,
Sein and family, needed it in the most desperate way to continue Vincent's art work in
his
little apartment that Mauve so graciously help Vincent furnish, and studio that they
work so hard
to set up. Vincent would do paintings and Sein would go around to the bars
and store owners to try and sell his works so they could survive, but she
found that to be quite Impossible, for nobody liked his works. After many trip to
the soup kitchen and getting behind on everything, Sein had to move back in
with her mother, and go back to work as a prostitute to help support her. Lovely mother,
wasn't she!
On Tuesday September 11, 1883, Theo received the
first letter that Vincent wrote to him from Hoogeveen in the province of
Drenthe in the north of Holland. " I would fill more attraction for, and
would rather come into contact with, one who was ugly or poor or in some way
unhappy, but who, through experience and sorrow, had gained a mind and a
soul. I think she has, for the moment, no better friend than me, who would
help her with all my heart if she would let me. But she does not seek my
confidence, and makes me absolutely powerless by trusting those who are
really her enemies. She is not really responsible, like somebody who
understands the distinction from good and evil.... For I think if she knew
what was right, she'd do it..... I am so anxious to save her that if, for
instance, I could do so by marrying her, I would marry her even now. If I
had had other chances, had been in different circumstances, and if nothing
decisive had happened, of course it would have influenced my actions. A
simple word about it during our walk made me feel that absolutely nothing is
change within me in that respect, that it is and remains a wound which I
carry with me, it lies deep and cannot be healed. After years it will be the
same as it was the first day, and since then, things have happened which
would not have occurred, if at a certain moment I Had not been confronted
firstly by a decided " no", and secondly by a promise that I should keep
out of her way."
The last part of this letter, the experts say; It is quite
clear he is talking about Kee, and this confirms the lasting wound which her
" No, never never " left in him, and which They have already mentioned in
connection with a walk in Arles.
If you are familiar with Vincent's drawing of " Sorrow " If you will look at
it as I tell you,
you will see that there is a lot to support such an attribution. Look into the
center of the body of "Sorrow" and squint your eyes to see, Sein and
Vincent, saying their goodbye with a strong , embracing kiss!! Now look at the painting
and do the same thing. Sein's sternum would be the back of Vincent's ear, and see
the Grand Lady, her daughter, Vincent and the baby all embracing saying
their goodbye. Now thirdly, look and squint your eyes again to see Vincent walking
out the open with Sien standing in the door way. The door is from sein's collar bone
down
to her elbow. Now wouldn't you think that it would be a little bit more
acceptable as a van Gogh, if these aspects were there, and someone besides myself were
actually able to see them for themselves? |
