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might be sued for slander of title and that his paintings might be impounded, ReEwyeen spoke of cancelling his trip. [[strikethrough]] the sailing was cancelled Durjecation I[[/strikethrough]]  solution was found when Goetz greed not to sue and to abide by the decisision of a jury of experts, meeting at the Metropolitan, concerning his painting.

The group met ;they examined and analyzed the picture; compared it with 158 ptgs and drawings the [[strikethrough]] dozens [[/strikethrough]] impeccably authentic Van Goghs collected 
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at the Metropolitan for the exhibition, especially with an incontrovertibly [[strikethrough]] genuine [[/stirkethrough]] self-portrait owned by the late Maurice Wertheim of which the Goetz picture was an exact mirror-image. [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] came up with the verdict, "We are unwilling to accept it [the Goetz picture.] as an original work by Vincent Van Gogh," a verdict which, if it stood, would render the painting practically worthless.

Goetz and Lewenthal refused to believe the jury, claiming they might indeed be art experts but that they were not Van Gogh experts, [ [[strikethrough]] jumping on the [[/strikethrough]] jury's [[strikethrough]] phrase "with full recognition of its own fallability (which a member explained was simply conventional)] [[/strikethrough]]

at the Metropolitan for the exhibition, especially with an incontrovertible strikethrough]] y genuine [[/strikethrough]] self-portrait owned by the late Maurice Wertheim of which the Goetz picture was amply an exact mirror-image. [[strikethrough]] ; and [[/strikethrough]]  They came up with the verdict, "We are unwilling to accept it [the Goetz picture] as an original work by Vincent Van Gogh," a verdict which, if it stood, would render the painting practically worthless.

Goetz and Lewenthal refused to believe the jury, claiming they might indeed be art experts but that they were not Van Gogh experts, [Jury's [[strikethrough]] jumping on the phrase "with full recognition of its own fallability (which a member explained was simply conventional) [[/strikethrough]] ] and inisting the report was [[?]] & superficial] & in particular that not enough attention had been given to the "handwriting". They shipped the painting off to Europe, gave it to five favorably inclined European experts who oked it and brought it back through the Port of New York. Here, since according to the [[strikethrough]] department [[/strikethrough]] published American verdict, the painting was not an original, and[[strikethrough]] it was declared [[/strikethrough]] $5,000 worth of duty was due [[strikethrough]] demanded [[/strikethrough]]. Goetz pretended [[/strikethrough]] refused to pay agree this [[/strikethrough]]. McCarthy, who would ordinarily have passed on the painting, declined the as-

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