Boussod Valadon / Goupil dealing around Theo leaves Vincent's stock in an opaque unsold inventory
Boussod Valadon dealing around Theo left Vincent's stock in an opaque unsold inventory. In the causal graph this event strengthens Institutional Corruption, a driver that strengthens Political corruption index — a worsening welfare path.
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Boussod Valadon dealing around Theo left Vincent's stock in an opaque unsold inventory. The instrument is that dealer-opacity, not a later honest catalogue. Vincent van Gogh's documented role is: Theo worked inside a dealer house whose books were not a public museum. Vincent's stock sat unsold. Medium on unique ledger opacity. Later Johanna opened a different public.
Context
Theo is an employee-dealer, not the firm's owner. Sharing that house is required. Lifetime unsold remains the ineq row. The setting of Boussod Valadon / Goupil dealing around Theo leaves Vincent's stock in an opaque unsold inventory is the public file around 1887-09-01. Driver institutional-corruption is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Why it matters
Worsening path from Boussod Valadon / Goupil dealing around Theo leaves Vincent's stock in an opaque unsold inventory on 1887-09-01. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.
Shared responsibility is part of Boussod Valadon / Goupil dealing around Theo leaves Vincent's stock in an opaque unsold inventory. Naming Vincent van Gogh does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1887-09-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Vincent van Gogh
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.28 · verified
Theo worked inside a dealer house whose books were not a public museum. Vincent's stock sat unsold. Medium on unique ledger opacity. Later Johanna opened a different public.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactBoussod Valadon / Goupil dealing around Theo leaves Vincent's stock in an opaque unsold inventory
- strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
- strengthensIndicators (3)Political corruption index
impact weight 0.25 · Effect from 1 September 1887 · verified
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.19 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.76)
Observed
0.48 score from 0 to 1 · 0.29 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.4 score from 0 to 1 to 0.48 score from 0 to 1.
Above normal = worse
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.15 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.62)
Observed
56.1 Score · 13.7 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 readings, 1996–2024: fell from 57 Score to 56.1 Score.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.13 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.5)
Observed
42.5 index score (0-100) · 7.53 below the normal line (2025)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Britannica — Vincent van Gogh, Goupil neighbourhoodEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
- 2.Van Gogh Museum — Vincent's life chronologyVan Gogh Museum · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Official locator: Van Gogh Museum — Theo at Boussod Valadon neighbourhood at https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890 (opens in a new tab) (Van Gogh Museum). Independent locator: Britannica — Vincent van Gogh, Theo as dealer at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Van Gogh Museum — Theo at Boussod Valadon neighbourhood (https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890 (opens in a new tab); Van Gogh Museum). Independent carrier: Britannica — Vincent van Gogh, Theo as dealer (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).
Established: a sourced public record of Boussod Valadon / Goupil dealing around Theo leaves Vincent's stock in an opaque unsold inventory under 1887-09-01 for Vincent van Gogh. Established: a sourced public record of Boussod Valadon / Goupil dealing around Theo leaves Vincent's stock in an opaque unsold inventory under 1887-09-01.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Unsold is the market row; this is the bookkeeping-opacity row. Mixed effects of Boussod Valadon / Goupil dealing around Theo leaves Vincent's stock in an opaque unsold inventory are separate paths.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorVincent van Gogh
- contributed toFactBoussod Valadon / Goupil dealing around Theo leaves Vincent's stock in an opaque unsold inventory
- strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
- strengthensIndicatorPolitical corruption index
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Factrail. (2026). Boussod Valadon / Goupil dealing around Theo leaves Vincent's stock in an opaque unsold inventory. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-dealer-opacity
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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