Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/12

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Vs: Re: price of art prints (was re: kyle's fine art)
From: Allan Wafkowski <allan@sohogurus.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:43:46 -0500

No, it's a true story. I was nine or so.

Allan

On Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at 05:29 PM, Feliciano di Giorgio wrote:

> 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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