# Boussod Valadon / Goupil dealing around Theo leaves Vincent's stock in an opaque unsold inventory

Date: 1887

## The fact

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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [institutional-corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

The attached driver is institutional-corruption. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Van Gogh Museum — Theo at Boussod Valadon neighbourhood at https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890 (Van Gogh Museum). Independent locator: Britannica — Vincent van Gogh, Theo as dealer at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Van Gogh Museum — Theo at Boussod Valadon neighbourhood (https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890; Van Gogh Museum). Independent carrier: Britannica — Vincent van Gogh, Theo as dealer (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Van Gogh Museum — Theo at Boussod Valadon neighbourhood (https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890; Van Gogh Museum).

## Significance

Worsening path from Boussod Valadon / Goupil dealing around Theo leaves Vincent's stock in an opaque unsold inventory on 1887-09-01. An opaque dealer inventory around a living painter is an institutional-opacity path of medium-low weight. 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.

## What is established and what is not

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. Do not treat later transparent catalogues raisonnés as 1887. 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.

## People

- Vincent van Gogh: https://factrail.ai/people/vincent-van-gogh

## Drivers

- Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh
- https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-dealer-opacity