When Christian Mustad showed his Van Gogh landscape to art collector Auguste Pellerin Pellerin took one look and said it wasn rsquo t authentic Mustad hid the painting in his attic where it remained for fifty years Mustad died and the painting was evaluated off and on over the next four decades Each time it was determined to be a fake Until when an expert used a computer to count the thread separations in the painting rsquo s canvas He discovered it had been cut from the same canvas as another work of Van Gogh Mustad had owned a real [... more]