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Greek Claims 'Last' Van Gogh

Work said to be 'liberated' from Nazis billed as third portrait of Dr. Gachet

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted May 19, 2008 6:35 PM CDT

(Newser) – A painting under examination in Greece is being billed as the last work of Vincent van Gogh, the Guardian reports. Seized by the Nazis from French Jews, then "liberated" by Greek resistance fighters in 1944, the work appears to be a third portrait of van Gogh’s physician, Dr. Gachet—though a notebook found with the portrait has been dismissed as not van Gogh's.

"It has gone through so many laboratory analyses that I am 100% convinced it is a Vincent van Gogh," said one Paris art historian studying the work. With the identity of its pre-Nazi owners kept secret, and no one laying claim to it, the daughter of the Greek fighter stands to make a fortune from the painting, valued at $100 million.

The first portrait of Dr. Gachet is seen in this undated file photo.
The first portrait of Dr. Gachet is seen in this undated file photo.   (Wikimedia Commons)
This photo suppiled by The Morgan Library & Museum in New York shows Vincent Van Gogh's  1887 Self-Portrait
This photo suppiled by The Morgan Library & Museum in New York shows Vincent Van Gogh's 1887 "Self-Portrait   (AP Photo)
People take look at 'Street in Auvers-sur-Oise' of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, during the inauguration of the exhibition 'Van Gogh. The last landscapes. Auvers-sur-Oise May20th-July 29th 1980' at the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, in Madrid, Monday, June 11, 2007. Beginning Tuesday, Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum brings together 29 works in what...
People take look at 'Street in Auvers-sur-Oise' of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, during the inauguration of the exhibition 'Van Gogh. The last landscapes. Auvers-sur-Oise May20th-July 29th 1980' at...   (AP Photo)
Pictured here is the second known portrait of Dr. Gachet, Van Gogh's physician.
Pictured here is the second known portrait of Dr. Gachet, Van Gogh's physician.   (Wikimedia Commons)
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