Van Gogh's lost sketchbook? (ctd.)
January 4 2017
Picture: via Artnet News
The publishers of the so-called 'Lost Arles Sketchbook' by Van Gogh - which I think it's fair to say that most Van Gogh experts have said does not represent the work of Van Gogh - have said that they may take legal action if anyone says the drawings are fake. The threat specifically is that the publisher:
“reserved the right to undertake any appropriate action to repair the damage caused by these claims that describe her [the book's owner] as a forger.”
Which is an interesting formulation, because as far as I know, nobody has actually said; 'these drawings are fakes made by the book's alleged owner', But if the publisher of the 'Lost Sketchbook' wants to bring that question into the debate, then so be it.
Certainly, there's something very modern about the portrait drawings in the sketchbook. My guess is that if the drawings are fakes, then they have been made relatively recently.
