A Gem in the Mud?

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Jenna Russell, Masterpiece Yields Quite a Markup; Auction expected to bring big price for yard sale find. Boston Globe, Jan 28, 2011.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2011/01/28/a_lost_masterpiece_yields_quite_a_markup/

My comment:
(a) Cagnes-sur-Mer
http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagnes-sur-Mer
( a commune of the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region; the largest suburb of the city of Nice)
(b) Ipswich, Massachusetts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipswich,_Massachusetts
(after Ipswich in the county of Suffolk, England, the source of prominent early settlers)

Ipswich
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipswich
(The modern name is derived from the medieval name, 'Gippeswick' (also spelt 'Gipewiz', 'Gepeswiz', or 'Gypeswiz') is probably taken from the River Gipping which is the name of the non-tidal section of the River Orwell)
(c) Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874-1939)
(d) It seems to me that Skinner Inc has an incentive to find the artwork is authentic. There is no forensic work on this painting.

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Jonathan Lopez, Brush With Greatness; Chester Dale donated his van Gogh to the National Gallery of Art, where it hung as the real thing until 1984. Wall Street Journal, Dec 16, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704694004576019402220516900.html
(book review on Henk Tromp, A Real Van Gogh. University of Amsterdam Press(2010))
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