Sometimes collecting is about taking all you have learned, believing in yourself and taking a leap of faith. George & Ilone did exactly that when they bought this painting.
In 1996, a year into collecting old masters, George Kremer sees a painting by Aelbert Cuyp from the Budapest museum and thinks “if only I could ever acquire such a major Cuyp for the collection!” In 2010 he manages to buy a work dubbed “doubtful” by the market and the authority on Cuyp and a 3 year research adventure takes off…
The podcast below is a summary of the article in the Burlington magazine of Febraury 2014, in which Martin Bijl and Wouter Kloek prove to the market that this fantastic painting is indeed by the master himself.
