Publishers threaten to sue museum over Van Gogh sketches
The threat follows the publication of a Van Gogh book in which sketches apparently from the artist’s stay in a French city are reproduced.
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A visitor looks at a self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh displayed at the Orsay Museum in Paris
The French publishers of a book of “lost” Vincent van Gogh sketches on Monday threatened legal action against a Dutch museum that has questioned the authenticity of the works.
The threat follows the publication in six countries last month of Vincent Van Gogh, the fog of Arles: the rediscovered sketchbook in which sketches apparently from the artist’s stay in the southern French city are reproduced.
The Vincent Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, however, has dismissed the sketches as fakes.
Publishing house Le Seuil “intends to obtain compensation for the damage they have suffered as a result of an insidious, unfounded campaign”.
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