€500.000 from Guéant. But who is the painter Van Eertvelt?

The most astonishing thing in all of this (at least in my opinion) is not so much the sum of €500.000 discovered, but the fact that Claude Guéant indicates without flinching, having received sums "in cash" from the government and this without being subject to tax...

Does the government pay its members to the "black" ???

Clearly, justice is not the same for everyone (additional information).

Is there a Guéant case? of USAinformations

Former UMP minister Claude Guéant, questioned on Tuesday on the discovery a transfer of €500.000 to his account, again denied any link with possible Libyan financing and assured that he had "never laundered anything" and that he did not "know how to do it". He advances the sale of a painting by the painter Andries Van Eervelt. But who is this Flemish artist?

The Flemish painter Andries Van Eertvelt, of whom Claude Guéant says he sold two paintings for a total of €500.000, is a XNUMXth century artist^e century, the record price of which, excluding fees, at auction amounts to €140.000. This is what the Artprice company said on Tuesday.

A large painting by Van Eertvelt (1590-1652) produced in 1640 and entitled The Battle of Lepanto was hammered for €140.000 (excluding costs) in 2010 by Sotheby's Amsterdam. The fees, which vary according to the amount of the lot, “are 20% on average”, according to Sotheby's. The buyer of this painting therefore paid around €168.000.

Average price of his works: €41.000

“This battle of Lepanto was sold under the best circumstances to achieve the best price. That is to say, the painting was presented by a major international auction house, in Amsterdam, the best possible place for a Dutch artist”, Artprice analysis.

The median price of works by Van Eertvelt, a medium-sized painter specializing in seascapes and naval battles, is 41.000 euros, according to the French company, the world's number one in art market data.

€500.000? " An abnormality "

The figure of 500.000 euros for the sale in 2008 of two seascapes by Van Eervelt, mentioned by Claude Guéant, therefore appears as "an anomaly in relation to the market price, with regard to the index and econometric data on this artist", considers Artprice.

Another large painting by the same artist on The Battle of Lepanto had been proposed in 2005 by Sotheby's France, with an estimate between 300.000 and 500.000 euros but it had not found a buyer at the auction.

Two-thirds of Van Eertvelt's works are sold for less than 10.000 euros. "There is no frantic research on this painter", according to Artprice.

A painting acquired twenty years ago

Le Canard enchaîné revealed that judges were questioning the payment of more than 500.000 euros from abroad to an account of Claude Guéant. The former interior minister denied on Monday any link between this money and possible Libyan financing of Nicolas Sarkozy's campaign in 2007.

The former secretary general of the Elysée justifies the half-million euros received by the sale in 2008 "to a fellow lawyer" of two paintings by this Dutch painter representing boats in a storm.

“I had acquired it about twenty years earlier”, he repeated on Tuesday on Canal +. "It was a purchase under personal circumstances, but I'm not an art investor", said Claude Gueant.

source: Ouest-france.fr