If you wanted to equate both versions ofVincent van Gogh’sPortrait of Dr. Gachetin someone , you could n’t . While the second one currently hang in Paris ’s Musée d’Orsay , the public has n’t seen the original picture since 1990 . In fact , nobody ’s really sure where it is — after its owner Ryoei Saito died in 1996 , the precious detail passed from private collector to private aggregator , but the identity element of its current owner isshroudedin mystery .
AsSmithsonian Magazinereports , Portrait of Dr. Gachet(1890 ) is one of a 12 painting in “ Missing Masterpieces , ” a digital exhibit of some of the world ’s most famouslost artworks . It ’s not the only Van Gogh in the collection . His 1884 paintingThe Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Springwas snatched from the Netherlands ’ Singer Laren museum earlier this year ; and his 1888 paintingThe Felis concolor on His mode to Workhas been miss sinceWorld War II . Other employment includeView of Auvers - sur - OisebyPaul Cézanne , William Blake’sLast Judgement , and two nosepiece painting by Claude Monet .
The new on-line exhibit is a collaborationism between Samsung and art crime expert Noah Charney , who founded The Association for Research into Crimes Against Art . It is n’t just a Thomas Nelson Page whereartenthusiasts can explore the tarradiddle behind the miss work — it ’s also a way to encourage masses to get forth with data that could lead to the recovery of the kit and boodle themselves .
“ From contradictory media reports to surmisal in Reddit feeds — the clues are out there , but the book of information can be overwhelming , ” Charneysaidin a press release . “ This is where engineering science and societal metier can help by bringing masses together to assist the hunting . It ’s not unheard of for an innocuous tip posted online to be the key that unlock a instance . ”
Theexhibitionwill be online through February 10 , 2021 , and citizen sleuths can e-mail their tips to missingmasterpieces@artcrimeresearch.org .
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