Schuffenecker? An artist hardly anyone has heard of. And yet he painted some of the most celebrated and expensive "van Goghs" ever sold. Most of his fakes are still considered genuine paintings by the great Vincent van Gogh. Such icons as the Sunflowers, sold by Christie's for a world record price in 1987, the Arlesienne in New York's Met, and the much admired "self-portrait" showing the artist with bandaged ear and pipe are, in fact, the handiwork of Emile Schuffenecker (1851 - 1934). In Schuffenecker's Sunflowers Benoit Landais and Hanspeter Born explain how a man of modest talent...
Schuffenecker? An artist hardly anyone has heard of. And yet he painted some of the most celebrated and expensive "van Goghs" ever sold. Most of his f...