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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 229402, member: 2844"]Andri has already contacted the van Gogh Museum. I think that is the best place, they are the experts and have the most information. They also have the correspondence between Vincent and Theo.</p><p><br /></p><p>But just one thing, which others may have noticed too:</p><p>What bothered me from the start was the prominent position of the signature. I have never seen that on a van Gogh painting. Van Gogh did such a good job of signing in an unobtrusive way, that if you google van Gogh paintings, you usually can't even find the signature. It is as if someone is trying too hard to convince us.</p><p>The signatures on van Gogh's Paris paintings were mostly (maybe all?) done in reddish brown, a colour he also signed a lot of his Arles paintings with. That reddish brown colour is used in the painting, for instance on two figures near the top of the stairs, so why use black for the signature?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 229402, member: 2844"]Andri has already contacted the van Gogh Museum. I think that is the best place, they are the experts and have the most information. They also have the correspondence between Vincent and Theo. But just one thing, which others may have noticed too: What bothered me from the start was the prominent position of the signature. I have never seen that on a van Gogh painting. Van Gogh did such a good job of signing in an unobtrusive way, that if you google van Gogh paintings, you usually can't even find the signature. It is as if someone is trying too hard to convince us. The signatures on van Gogh's Paris paintings were mostly (maybe all?) done in reddish brown, a colour he also signed a lot of his Arles paintings with. That reddish brown colour is used in the painting, for instance on two figures near the top of the stairs, so why use black for the signature?[/QUOTE]
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