A Villeurbanne 50 is persuaded to possess a painting of the master of Impressionism, bought on Bon Coin there two years and tries to authenticate. A start-up specializing in digital tables graciously offers him an authentication test.
The story seems too good to be true. But if his intuition was correct? Ahmed Ziani, Villeurbanne 50, is convinced he unearthed Le Bon Coin, there are two years, a painting by Auguste Renoir. This old mechanic, then unemployed, regularly snooping on the advertisement site to supplement his income by selling a margin of paintings found in flea markets or shopping sites online.
But so far, impossible to overcome these steps to authenticate this painting. Ahmed Ziani think it could be Summer evening , a painting by Auguste Renoir at the age of 23 years and exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1865. A work which he no trace remains today, classified among the other paintings lost by the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA).
the table in possession of Villeurbanne has several elements common to the great master : Dubourg framework with key clamp, fine linen, white coating … the CIRAM, an art analytical and laboratory authentication based in Bordeaux, also assured him that the painting was done in 1860 and some of its pigments and compounds had been detected on other paintings by Renoir.
however, not enough to confirm the work’s authorship. And economies of Ahmed Ziani starting to dry up. The start-up Light Technology has decided to give him a hand. Located in Paris, the company specializes in the spectral study of works of art (which has already studied Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci or The Flight into Egypt Poussin) graciously proposes to examine the canvas. From a multispectral camera, it would be able to observe all the paint layers and compare them with other Renoir and paintings by masters.
“Instinctively, discovering the battle led by Mr. Ziani, I felt there was something important, explained the progress Pernicaut Jean, co-founder of Lumiere Technology. This man moved me because it is engaged in what I call the denial by history of art [...] . His research has been systematically constrained by powerful institutions that manage the catalog raisonné with unparalleled arrogance, and who do not accept that a third party stranger to the world merchant or museum, to access to knowledge. “
Meanwhile, Ahmed Ziani is delighted: “this is exactly what I hoped by telling my adventure to the Progress , but I dared not even dream of.” Rendez you is taken next week in Paris, to have the heart net. Renoir Renoir or not? Reply in a few days.
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