Nicolai Christian Mustad
1878–1970Nicolai Christian Mustad stored a Van Gogh painting in an attic after being told it was a fake, and it was later identified as Sunset at Montmajour.
Particulars
In 1908 Nicolai Christian Mustad bought a Vincent van Gogh painting on the advice of Norwegian art historian Jens Thiis, but after a suggestion from the French ambassador to Sweden or Auguste Pellerin that it was a fake or wrongly attributed, he consigned it to an attic.
The painting remained there until Mustad's death in 1970, when it was sold to another collector; after two failed attempts to attribute it as a van Gogh, it was finally identified as Sunset at Montmajour, painted by van Gogh in 1888.
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