One of the prized pieces in the Israel Museum’s art collection could be a fake, a French newspaper reported. An editorial in Le Monde, written by an expert on French painting, suggested that Vincent Van Gogh’s “The Harvesters” was the work of a friend of Van Gogh’s. The head of public information at the Israel Museum countered that the work has a carefully documented history.
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