After reading the posts of this topic, I remember the story of Georges Simenon, "The three of Rembrandt." Baseline data of course in the subject and the story is different, but here's the association I am having (somewhere I've heard), I thought and thought of "Three Rembrandt".
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The hotel "Dryuo" was declared the auction, promising sensatsiyu.Rech was no more nor less than an unknown Rembrandt (it was a self-portrait). Some antiquarian named Val, long kept him at home, until he decided to sell. Exceptional value attached a picture not only signed, but the date-1669, the year of death hudozhnika.Drugogo portrait of those years did not exist.
Some critics, who saw a masterpiece, recognized his genuine, but his word is not the expert said.
Suddenly hotel filled exciting vest.V gallery "Dryuo" was well-dressed young man and gave the director on behalf of Val precious cloth. No sooner had the young man to leave, as he was replaced by a messenger, and handed the director parcel of the same size, had disappeared.
Finally, in "Hotel Dryuo" Val was very dumbfounded and in front of the director, unpacked his picture.
Before the director was not one but three identical Rembrandt. Commotion, immediately notified the police began the search for a young man, a messenger and in the confusion Rembrandt reshuffled so that it is now impossible to say has already been, where Val Rembrandt poor, and where not.
The auction was postponed. Began debate on the authenticity of each frame rabot.Mneniya razdelilis.Na for convenience were glued labels 1,2,3.
Some experts defended the authenticity of the number 1, while others were for the number 2 and number 3 was at least zaschitnikov.Provodilis research expertise, but who out of 3 Rembrandt true, the Commission has failed to install.
The auction was held still. Three portraits hung ryadom.Tseny auction was rabid. The funny thing is that the paintings were 3, but 2 of them no value predstavlyali.Auktsion looked more like a lottery, and to accurately capture a portrait, it was necessary for any money to buy all three raboty.Pokupka was made by an American collector, and cost him a fabulous summu.Teper web flaunt all three in his gallery.
The mystery remains unsolved three by Rembrandt, but it was the fact that no real work, all three fakes.
Our antiquarian Val decided to try his luck in one fell swoop and disrupt million.On fabricated by Rembrandt, more just three. Almost no one shows, except for one or two critics, is limited to conversations that once bought at some auction provincial dirty, grimy painting, something he vending, but after the Restoration saw that masterpiece in his hands, the dream his whole life and now that he has never not part with this kartinoy.Tak legend was born of a unique creation of Rembrandt's painting, which is not prodaetsya.Vremya, legend, and with it the picture, take on their lives.
But suddenly Val announces his decision to sell a Rembrandt. Daughters should be given, and he clenched his teeth selling masterpiece.
And what if the experts establish fraud? and here our Val, having at its disposal two more paintings, to the point that experts are not asked, "This picture is real?" and asked, "Which of these three really belongs to Rembrandt?"
You know the end.