Gallery owner: Because this painting appears in no catalog of van Gogh’s work, we cannot guarantee that he painted it. ███ █████████ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ██ ███████ ██████ ███ ███████ █████ ████ ██ ███ █████ █████████ ███ ████ ██████████ ████ ████ ████ █████ ████████████ ███ ███████████ ████████████ ██ ██████ ██ ██ ████ █████ ████████ █████████ ██████████ █████ ██ █████████ ███████ ████ ████ ██ █ ██████████ ████████████ ████ ███ █████ ███ ██ █████ █ ███████ ██ ███ ██████
The gallery owner concludes that a certain painting is almost certainly an uncatalogued van Gogh. Why? Because the painting's subject matter and style match with what one would expect of a van Gogh painting.
The issue with the gallery owner's argument is that neither the subject matter nor the style of the painting guarantee that someone else didn't paint it. It's entirely possible that someone else painted the same subject with a similar style, either to pass it off as a van Gogh painting or just for fun. The gallery owner doesn't give any reason why we should believe this isn't the case.
Analysis by AlexandraNash
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