‘Laughing stock of the art world’ is finally vindicated

AN eccentric art collector mocked for insisting one of his paintings was an unknown Van Gogh has been vindicated 25 years after his death.

The painting, Le Blute-Fin Mill, is the first to be authenticated since 1995.

It was bought in 1975 by Dutchman Dirk Hannema who was known as a brilliant art curator but a bit of a fool.