I would first like to acknowledge my writing partners, Regina Lee and Stephen Tavares, for the advice and feedback I received for the drafts of my work. Furthermore, my thanks go to each individual in my writing seminar class, WRI 152, for every critique offered, and to Dr. Kay Chubbuck for her guidance throughout the research process and her valuable remarks, and to Kati Lovasz for her technological support.



I. Art Works:



Gauguin, Paul. “Portrait of Vincent Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers, Arles 1888.” 1888. Collection Unknown.


Van Gogh, Vincent. “Garden in Auvers.” 1890. Private Collection: Pierre Vernes and Edith Vernes-Karaoglan, Paris.


Van Gogh, Vincent. “Portrait of Doctor Gachet.” 1890. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.


Van Gogh, Vincent. “Portrait of Doctor Gachet.” 1890. Private Collection.


Van Gogh, Vincent. “Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers.” 1888. National Gallery, London.


Van Gogh, Vincent. “Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers.” 1889. Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo.


Van Gogh, Vincent. “Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers.” 1889. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.


Van Gogh, Vincent. “The Artist's Bedroom.” 1888. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.





II. Other Works Cited:



Bailey, Martin. “At Least Forty-Five Van Goghs May Well Be Fakes.” The Art Newspaper. No. 72 (July-August, 1997): no page numbers listed.


Bailey, Martin. “Stems of Division in the Provenance of ‘Sunflowers.’ ” The Art Newspaper. (July-August, 1998): no page numbers listed.


Beckett, Alice. Fakes: Forgery and the Art World. London: R. Cohen Books. 1994.


Beckett, Sister Wendy. “Post-Impressionist Painters.” The Story of Painting. London: Dorling Kinderley. 1994: 310-324.


Bennett, Will. “ ‘Fake’ Van Gogh Ruled Genuine.” The Daily Telegraph (London). (March 27, 2002): 17.


Daniel, Jeff. “Van Gogh's Star Continues to Rise – and so Does the Debate over Fakes; Exhibit on Popular Painter Is Coming to Art Museum in February.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch. (August 13, 2000): F1


Feilchenfeldt, Walter. “Van Gogh Fakes: The Wacker Affair.” Simiolus. Vol. 19 no. 4 (1989): no page numbers listed.


May, Derwent. “A Collaboration that Coloured and Crazed.” The Times Higher Education Supplement. No. 1527 (March 1, 2002): 21.


Phillips, David. “Forgery.” Grove Art Online. 2004. 18 November 2004. [www.groveart.com]


Plagens, Peter and Yahlin Chang. “Van Gogh or No Gogh?” Newsweek. (July 21, 1997): 72.


Radnoti, Sandor. The Fake: Forgery and its Place in Art. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1999.


Ryback, Timothy W. “The So-Called Van Goghs.” Art News Online. (Summer, 2000): no page numbers.


“Van Gogh’s Sunflowers Might Lead to Biggest Forgery Scandal.” News-Archives. (August 1997): no page numbers listed.


“Yesterday’s Blooms; Pricing the Priceless.” The Economist. (December 22, 1990): 5.