Breaking van Gogh

CONTENTS

I: The Art Boom Rises

1: House of Bührle

2: Cold War, Hot Art

3: 1987 Shock and Thaw

4: The Passionate Bull’s-Eye

5: The Honey Trap

6: Seduction at Sunnylands

7: Making an Impression

8: Poison Dart Art Critic

9: Letting Gogh

II: Descent into Saint-Rémy

10: Confined and Liberated

11: Finding van Gogh

12: Descent into Madness

13: Lasting Impressions

14: Trains, Rolls, Impasto

15: Deaths of Two Brothers

16: Widow’s Intuition

17: Wheel Ruts in the Road

18: 1901 Making a Name

III: Broken Provenance

19: The Art Restorer’s Dream

20: Dark Provenances

21: Schuffenwreckers

22: Avant-Garde Berlin

23: Aryanization

24: A Deal with the Devil

25: The Holocaust Clawback

26: Van Gogh’s Missing DNA

27: Failing van Gogh

IV: The Age of Transparency

28: Van Gogh’s Fragmented Oeuvre

29: Van Gogh / Van Nogh Check List

30: Blockchain Fine Art

Acknowledgments