In Breaking van Gogh; James Grundvig investigates the history and authenticity of van Goghrsquo;s iconic Wheat Field with Cypresses; currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Relying on a vast array of techniques from the study of the painterrsquo;s biography and personal correspondence to the examination of the paintingrsquo;s style and technical characteristics; Grundvig proves that “the most expensive purchaserdquo; housed in the Met is a fake.The Wheat Field with Cypresses is traditionally considered to date to the time of van Goghrsquo;s stay in the Saint-Reacute;my mental asylum; where the artist produced many of his masterpieces. After his suicide; these paintings languished for a decade; until his sister-in-law took them to a family friend for restoration. The restorer had other ideas.In the course of his investigation; Grundvig traces the incredible story of this piece from the artistrsquo;s brushstrokes in sunlit southern France to a forgerrsquo;s den in Paris; the art collections of a prominent Jewish banking family and a Nazi-sympathizing Swiss arms dealer; and finally the walls of the Met. The riveting narrative weaves its way through the turbulent history of twentieth-century Europe; as the paintingrsquo;s fate is intimately bound with some of its major players.
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