After a possible early work of Vincent van Gogh pops up in France, the Dutch Van Gogh museum does not want to give the painting an authenticity certificate. It turns out that there are many more people with possible early work from ‘Vincent’ that are waiting for approval from the Amsterdam Van Gogh museum.
A crew from the French first TV broadcaster TF1 travel to the Netherlands to film for a reportage paintings that might be created by Van Gogh and about people that might be fake or real.
A French Vincent van Gogh specialist living in The Netherlands gives his views on the matter, one of the Van Gogh museum curators explains what their policy is and two collectors show their collection of possible paintings from Vincent. The famous Dutch forger Geert Jan Jansen shares his views while he hangs an exhibition of his own work.
For this news reportage Featurez did the research, set-up and planning, accompanied the filming and did translations.