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A unique collection exists in Cattolica. It now also includes the mysterious FRAGMENT no. 4, an original text written in Van Gogh's own hand, the deepest expression of his soul, which has already become a mystery worldwide. The most experienced Van Gogh scholars have been researching this manuscript for years, and in 2021 some international articles anticipated its details. Ariano new work of art named RITROGRAFIA No. 37 and titled “Van Gogh IN PIECES”, contains this FRAMENT No. 4, so important that it attracted the Undersecretary for Culture Vittorio Sgarbi to Cattolica on 20.12.2022.  

VIDEO SGARBI ARIANO VAN GOGH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chnf0yTRlX0

Here are the first details of FRAGMENT No. 4 discovered by Ariano and represented with hRITROGRAFIA No. 37:

• Van Gogh's original text was written in 1876 in London, in Annie Slade-Jones' visitors' book.
• It has been forgotten for almost 100 years.
• It was chopped up and dismembered, in six pieces, by an unknown person in 1980, as if it were a relic.
• It was sought for and partially found by the Getty Museum (n.3 pieces found, n.2 pieces unknown).
• It disappeared for another 30 years.
• It has just been rediscovered.
• It was bought, in 2022, by the tenacious Ariano. 

The mystery deepens because, while researchers have determined that the poem written by Van Gogh, on the front of the FRAGMENT No. 4, is Longfellow's "Afternoon in February", no one knows, yet, what was written by Vincent on the back of it. Ariano read Van Gogh's entire epistolary exchange and then decided to unveil his findings through the composition of "RITROGRAFIE" (from “RITR-atto” & “Bi-OGRAFIA”). Ariano declares: 'I FEEL Vincent deeply and have created the nest that he always sought and never found. I put Van Gogh at the centre of my collection, giving him the presence of all those artists he would always have wanted near him.  Following the precise indications from Vincent's own letters, I decided to buy, for him, paintings, letters, autographs, and books hanging them on the walls in the same maniacal way that Vincent organised and exhibited his collections. In my collection there are, all original, three thousand books and eight hundred artists, including Longfellow, Delaroche, Gauguin, Gachet, Adam Victor, Abbey, Bernard, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Hirschig, Rodin, Breton, Duprè, Baudry, Bargue, Baudelaire, Beers, Berlioz, Bismarck, Blommers, Boch, De Bock, Boetzel, Boggs, Bosboom, Boussod, Brion, Cabanel, Cazin, Chevreul, Cormon, Cristobal, Cuyp, Dadd, Daubigny, Daumier,Dickens, Dorè, Dostoevsky, Signac, Seurat, Polack, Johanna Bonger, Pissarro, Cassagne, Carlyle, Dumas, Hugo, Delacroix, Esquiros, Fildes, Flammarion,  Giacomelli, Cassagne, Jouve A., Mann Livens, Florent, Rappard, Roelofs, Bakhuyzen, Bargue, Fantin-Latour, Goupil Adolphe, Goupil J. Adolphe, Greuze, De Groux, Harper, Harpignes, Heilbuth, Herkomer, Huijsmans C. Cornelis, Ingres, Isabey, Jeannin, Jourdain, Kam Benjamin Jan, Karr, Kate Ten, Katow, Kerssemakers, Lancon, Landelle, Lauzet, Leech, Lefebvre, Leighton, Lemonnier, Lerolle, Lessore H E, Liebermann, Loti, Luce, Macknight Dodge, Maaten, Macquoid, Madiol, Manet, Marchetti, Marieton, Maris Matthijs, Jacob, Masson, Maupassant, Maurier, Maus, Mauve, Mellery, Mesdag, Meunier, Michel, Millais, Millet, Mols, Montalba, Monticelli, Morelli, Munkácsy Mihály, Murger, Nadal, Nakken, Nash, Neuhuys, Nieweg, Nittis, Noel, Oberlander, Ohnet, Ollendorf, Ostade, Overend, Paillard, Parker, Parsons, Pasini, Pasteur, Paterson, Pelletan, Perret, Pieneman, Portaels, Poynter, Prevel, Quost, Raffaelli, Raffet, Raspail, read, Reinhart, Richepin, Ricord, Rink, Robert Karl, Roche Edmond, Roll, Rotta, Rowlandson, Rundle C. Elizabeth, Ruskin, Sainte Beuve, Sambourne, Sand, Sardou, Saulnier, Scheffer, Schelfhout, Schendel Petrus, Schipperus, Schotel J. Christianus, Schuffenecker, Schuler, Secrétan Pierre-Etienne, Serret, Serusier, Seurat, Severdonck, Siberdt, Silvestre A+T, Sims, Small, Smith, Ter Meulen, Stedman, Tennyson, Thackeray, Tholen, Tissot, Tolstoy, Toulouse Lautrec, Thornley, Thulstrup de Thure, Towneley, Tournemine, Trigt, Troyon, Uhde, Valenti, Valerio, Valkenburg, Vallette, Vautier, Velden, Verboeckhoven, Verlat, Vernier, Veron, Verschuur, Vertin, Veyrassat, Vignon, Vinck, Vitet, Vogue, Vollard, Vollon, Vriendt, Wagner, Wakker, Waldorp, Walker, Wallace, Warner, Weele, Weissenbruch, Wenckebach, Whistler, Whitman, Wijsmuller, Woodville, Yon, Zola, Ziem, ecc., ecc.., and other 500 artists !!!”.

FOREWORD

On his path Ariano made some really important discoveries, stating that:

"The first of these discoveries concerns what Vittorio Sgarbi called:
THE LETTER WHICH ORIGINATED THE MYTH OF VAN GOGH", i.e. that of Camille Pissarro, Van Gogh's friend, dated 18 October 1890, published in multiple languages and until now thought to have disappeared. It is so important because, if the contents of the letter had come true, the world would not have Van Gogh today.

• Another jewel in the crown is the original signature, the only in private hands, of the first true influencer in history, Johanna Van Gogh Bonger, who made Van Gogh famous.
  VIDEO GOLDIN ARIANO JO BONGER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdwWaH4oka8&t=9s

• In addition, through RITROGRAPHY No. 8, a detail, which has eluded critics for 133 years, was revealed about the painting 'STILL LIFE WITH A PLATE OF ONIONS' currently on display in Rome at Palazzo Bonaparte. VIDEO ARIANO DISCOVERY TWO BOOKS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DujHwB1hrw8

• The fourth discovery, represented by RITROGRAPH No. 12, is a proposal for the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and concerns the comparison of Van Gogh's 'Arlesienne with Gloves' with the painting 'WOMAN IN SPAIN' by Emile Ferdinand Polack, a friend of Van Gogh's, who on 16 June 1889 proposed this comparison: 'Il disait que c'était beau comme un des grands Espagnols'.

• Another RITROGRAFIA concerns the family album of Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe.The most read book in history, after the Bible, is 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', written by Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, published in 1852, translated into all languages and quoted in eleven letters by Van Gogh, 'Le plus grand succès du temps est celui d'un livre de femme, le roman de madame Stowe , traduit dans toutes les langues, et lu par toute la terre, devenu pour une race l'évangile de la liberté'. Ariano found a very rare 1851 copy, intended just for publishers, the year before the first edition in 1852, together with the original family album, enriched with original photos, poems and thoughts signed by the entire Stowe family. The album is so important because Vincent wrote in letter no. 764 of 1889: 'I have reread Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom very carefully precisely because it is a woman's book, written, she says, while she was making soup for her children [...]'. The circumstances under which Beecher Stowe wrote her book are described as follows: "Some of the chapters were written in my study at the College [...] some of them on the cooker in the kitchen, as she directed a very poor cook in the preparation of dinner; but most of them while sat at the table in the schoolroom, with the children around her, and read to them as each chapter was completed, amidst their tears and sobs, and smiles and cries."

There is nothing like it in the world; in fact, if you want to see Van Gogh's paintings, you have to go to Amsterdam or Otterlo, but if you want to intimately know Vincent's education through the paintings, letters and books of the artists he loved and emulated, you absolutely have to study the RITROGRAFIE in the VAN GOGH FRIENDS collection. Everyone thinks Van Gogh was a painter. In reality he was a great poet and was so, for all of his 37 years. Only in the last 10 did he devote himself to painting, and even then, he confirmed himself as a poet, replacing words & verses with colours dosed and etched on canvas with a sensitivity never before seen in Art.