Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/12
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I hope you are making this up.
feli
Allan Wafkowski wrote:
>
> When I was a young boy, my class went on a field trip to the
> Metropolitan Museum of Art. Van Gogh was my hero that year, so when we
> entered the room that held the van Goghs, I peeled off from the group
> and sat on a bench, staring at one of the sunflower paintings. Soon my
> classmates left, and I was alone. Staring at the painting, with the
> murmur of footsteps in the background, I was entranced to be sitting
> alone in a roomful of van Gogh's colorful paintings. After a restful
> pause, I left my seat, and walked toward the painting, and stopped only
> inches away. Enchanted by the swirling colors and thick, pasty pigment,
> I reached up and plucked off a small piece of paint and put it in my
> change pocket. I then left to meet up with my class.
>
> I arrived home with my dangerous secret, and when I changed my clothes I
> couldn't decide where to put the paint chip for fear of losing it, so I
> left it in my change pocket and neatly folded my pants and placed them
> on my bed. The next day when I left for school, the pants and paint chip
> were still folded on my bed. When I returned home, they were gone. I
> asked my mother if she had taken them, and she answered, "Yes, I washed
> them."
>
> That was it--the van Gogh chip was gone. Just as well, I suppose. My
> conscience would have made me return the chip at some later date.
> Perhaps thirty years after the fact, I would have called the museum and
> explained the missing chip story. Still, if I had the chip, and did
> call, and an amused museum worked and said, "Forget it," I would be the
> bearer of one official van Gogh sunflower paint chip from
> painting--well, I don't remember which one.
>
> Allan
>
> On Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at 01:32 PM, Feliciano di Giorgio wrote:
> > Raimo Korhonen wrote:
> >>
> >> Yeah - van Gogh never sold any paintings in his life.
> >> All the best!
> >> Raimo
> >
> > I heard that after he died, a farmer used some of his paintings to patch
> > holes in a fence or barn.
> >
>
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