Van Gogh self-portrait surfaces after 36 years
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Vincent van Gogh’s self-portrait with a bandaged ear and pipe, created in January 1889, will be displayed at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris starting October 9.
The painting had not been publicly exhibited for 36 years. The Niarchos family owns the oil painting, which has a history including confiscation by the Nazis and transport via diplomatic pouches.
Emile Schuffenecker, an artist, initially purchased the work in 1896 and later sold it to Gustave Fayet in 1902 for 3,000 French francs. After Fayet’s death, Nazi forces seized the painting from a French art dealer, and it eventually came into the possession of Hermann Göring through a diplomatic bag from Switzerland. Following its recovery after the war, the painting changed hands several times before Stavros Niarchos acquired it in the mid-1970s for a reported 2 to 3 million dollars.
Today, experts estimate the self-portrait's value at 300 million dollars, and it was last shown in Zurich in 1990.
