painting supposingly by Paul Cezanne
its finder
Edgar Collins
became a collector of fine art all over the world after dropping from MIT graduate school
collected undiscovered artwork like the new van Gogh in1992
donated art work to museums all over the world
may not be a Cezanne because a French caricature concluded that no other painting were likely and it was bought by the infamous Josef berg
dr Mardin's finding
similar to a Cézanne at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania same visual elements
from late 1880s and it is a Cezanne painting
fine structure of the brushwork is indistinguishable from other paintings
dr Pruschy opinion that it is not a Cezanne painting
UV spectrum of incident light showed a substantial absorption from a polyene present in the paint material.
this painting shows an absorbance of 0.6, suggesting that it is not likely to be a hundred years old
dr andersen's opinion that it is not a Cezanne
both IR refractography and transmission spectra indicate that this might not be a Cézanne at all.
composed of Cadmium Yellow Lithopone which wasn't widely used until 1927, and yet Cézanne had died some 20 years earlier.
there is an underpainting and Cezanne has never done one
dr Monyota's opinion that it is a Cezanne
the elemental composition of the painting matches the composition of the pigments used during the period 1839-1906, and therefore there are no pigment anachronisms.
dr simpkin's opinion that it is aCezanne
The emission spectra of both the green pigment and the orange pigments in painting are very similar to those found in the Brooklyn Cézanne."