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Not so long ago a book was published art historian Benoit Lande, has for many years in conflict with the experts of the Museum Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh before »(« Vincent avant Van Gogh, l'affaire Marijnissen », publishing house« les Impressions Nouvelles »). It tells you that it has asked for help a collector from Breda, the owner of a large number of paintings, which he considered the works of Van Gogh.

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Lande wrote that Van Gogh's mother, Anna Cornelia Kartentus Ven Gogh, absolutely not involved in the legacy of his svna after his death.
When in 1889 the family van Gogh moved from Breda, according to some sources, all of the legacy of the artist were packed in boxes and deposited with a local carpenter named Adrianus Shrauven. Sam Vincent Van Gogh lived at that time, first in Paris and then in Arles, and absolutely not interested in the fate of his early works.
After the death of Vincent and Theo having various difficulties with wills, and in the meantime been stored in Breda, had disappeared. Theo's widow Johanna Van Gogh - Bonger reminded of their existence only in 1904 after learning that Shrauven sold them for a symbolic one guilder junk dealer, whose name was Johannes Couvreur, and a little later, his son sold the same Johannes Couvreur several paintings of Van Gogh for 128 guilders - the name of Van Gogh began to become known.
Works depicting nudity, Couvreur destroyed, because his wife refused to keep host such obscene things. All the other works he sold for a penny. Total there were about 500 works: 60 canvases on stretcher, 150 canvases without a stretcher, 100 drawings pen and from one hundred to two hundred pictures with crayons.

Johanna Van Gogh - Bonger tried to buy out Couvreur these works, but to no avail. In the end, these works stood at Adrianus Marinissen, amateur artist and full-time employee of the tax service of the Netherlands.

In 1947, just at a time when the world expert on the art of tearing apart a quarrel over the attribution of paintings by Van Gogh, and when the trial falsifier Vermeer Van Meygerenom put experts in the most favorable light, Marinissen appealed to the Stedelijk Museum.

He reported that in his possession is more than 250 works of Van Gogh - drawings, watercolors, drawings - and the art historian Hans Jaffe. However, Jaffe was impressed by all the recent scandals associated with the emergence of the market of fake Van Gogh, originating from the collection of Proulx and a gallery of Otto Wacker (some of which have been authenticated as the most prominent experts of 30-ies. Who later had to abandon their opinions). All this led to what chrezvycheyno Jaffe took a cautious stance.

Director Stedelijk Wim Sandberg invited to see a specialist in counterfeiting Maurits von Danzig, that he looked up some work from the collection Marinisena.

Von Danzig said Marinissenu that the work of these highly likely to be painted by Van Gogh, but he has requested information and the origin of 237 works owned by Marinissen, and did so in a rather aggressive way.

In 1948, Marinissen unexpectedly received a letter from Von Danzig, in which he notified him that a large number of works submitted for examination could not be created by Van Gogh, and that the signatures on them, most likely false.

A critical role in the refusal to recognize the Stedelijk Museum, these works of Van Gogh's played by his nephew, his son brataTeo, whose name, like his uncle, Vincent Van Gogh: Museum staff feared that the recognition of their work included in the collection Marinissen, the originals would anger nephew and that he will take away from the museum, where they were in storage, works from his own collection.

Marinissan continued to fight for something to work from his collection were found to originals, and reproached premyannika Van Gogh that he blackmailed the experts of the museum. In addition, he argued that the nephew has demanded that Marinissen free to return the work of the family of Van Gogh.
Another 34 years Jaffe acknowledged that the number before it works from the collection Marinisena, was a series of original Van Gogh.

Collection Marinissen was forgotten until 1978 when a German psychiatrist and amateur eivopisi Dr. Georg Klussman takers.
He tried to get the authentication of these works and in 1983 met with Jaffe, who once admitted that there were many collections of original Van Gogh, but that the leaders of the Stedelijk Museum, bad knowing the early period of Van Gogh, they preferred not to comment on their authenticity.

Klussman wrote a book about this collection, but to continue his studies, he was unable - in 1996 g.on died at the age of 44, several months after the most Marinissen, sold before the death of his collection.

In any case, the Van Gogh museum, created at the initiative of his nephew, refused to recognize those working at the same time not abandoning the idea to put them in the case of the hand.

Sam Lande absolutely convinced that a work of art Marinissen is an original Van Gogh.