Dirk Hannema was a well known museum curator and an art collector of the 20th century who was mocked by his peers for his grandiose opinions of his art collection. Mr. Hannema believed at one time that he owned seven unidentified paintings by Vermeer and a number of unknown works by Van Gogh.
Mr. Hannema was almost always wrong but in the case of this Van Gogh "Le-Bute-Fin-Windmill" which he donated to the Zwolle's Museum de Fundatie in 1984 has been proven by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam to be authentic and painted by Van Gogh while visiting his brother Theo in
Paris in 1886.
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