Dirk Hannema and the rediscovery of a painting by Vincent van Gogh

• Autores: Louis van Tilborgh, Ella Hendriks
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 152, Nº 1287, 2010, págs. 393-405
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • An essay examining the rediscovery of a Vincent van Gogh painting by Dirk Hannema, a former director of the Museum Boymans in Rotterdam, Holland, who acquired a reputation for making spectacular, and largely unfounded, attributions. Hannema's attributions to Van Gogh represent an area of his interest outside of his specialty in 17th-century Dutch painting, and he acquired four works that he claimed had been painted by the later artist. These anonymous paintings—Still life with peonies, Landscape with a quarry, Still life with a jug and shells, and The Blute-fin mill—garnered no interest from Hannema's colleagues, and would be of minimal art-historical interest but for the fact that the fourth work can now be identified as being a genuine Van Gogh. Acquired by Hannema from the Paris dealer Rickel Hein in 1975, the work is an unsigned Van Gogh that contains the largest group of figures he ever painted. While Hannema's connoisseurship remains highly questionable, he deserves credit for recognizing the authorship of this work when others had failed to do so.