Forget what's in your wallet. What's in your attic?
"Sunset at Montmajour," painted by Vincent van Gogh on July 4, 1888, but, and this is a big but, was recently discovered tucked away in an attic in Norway, part of the estate of Norwegian industrialist Christian Nicolai Mustad, who died thinking he had bought a fake in 1908.
A fake it is not.
No one could paint the outdoors with such intensity. No one could feel nature with such vibrant emotion.
I do not have an attic, so I've been rummaging around my basement looking for a long, lost masterpiece. So far? Just a lot of old clothes, Christmas decorations and crickets.
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