We believe the restoration work was done by Art Restoration Corp in Miami. Click here for the Sunbiz document showing Ed Koch as part owner. The handwriting for the Ed Koch entry on this document is very similar to the person's handwriting in the notes with Mary. For notes showing Mr. Koch's handwriting, click here and here (Camille Bombois is the only part in Mary's handwriting) . A handwriting expert states the handwriting on the Sunbiz looks like the same person's handwriting in Mary's notes.

Compare the colors used in the van Gogh painting below to the curtains in the Maria Sethe painting below by Theo van Rysselberghe. Van Gogh could have borrowed paint from Theo. They were traveling together during this time period. While traveling with Theo van Rysselberghe, van Gogh would most likely have been able to paint this Sultan.

The following article shows Frederick R. Koch owned van Gogh's.

 "After 1980 buyers, led by Wendell Cherry, Fred Koch and the Getty Museum, elevated French Impressionism, Van Gogh, Picasso and early 20th Century Europeans to the summit and ensured that on the auction houses' current list of the Top 100 Pictures Ever Sold, no fewer than 92 are works since 1870. “ 

Do you think this could be a painting by Vincent van Gogh? If so, please step forward and help us with getting Mary's art story heard. If you are a news reporter write an article, if you are a museum reach out and assist. If not you, then who?

Alexander Calder | Camille Bombois |  Éduardo Manet | Jane Peterson | Jim Cassel | Kees van Dongen |  Pablo Picasso | Vincent van Gogh

Stolen Charles Darwin Notebooks

Stolen for David Koch

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