Art article   kaleb reid    10/17/13

          A van gouh painting was found in an attic after many years in an empty field. Writing in the Burlington Magazine, the three Dutch experts from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam responsible for the discovery call the work "absolutely sensational".

          The picture was painted in 1888. The picture was a painting of a wild and beautiful countryside near Arles. All was fine but a family story suggests that the French ambassador to Sweden visited Mustad and suggested it was either a fake or wrongly attributed. Furious, the industrialist banished it to the attic.

          Auguste Pellerin, a collector who would have been considered an authority. Bizarrely, he was also the owner of Astra Margarine, the direct competitor with Mustad in Norway.Putting all this together, that Mustad was a young fledgling collector, that Pellerin was both a greater authority and a business rival, then it is possible to see how upset Mustad might be. Better to get it off the wall and quickly move on to better acquisitions.