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Van Gogh's pictures remain largely unsold in his lifetime despite Theo's dealing door

Van Gogh's pictures remained largely unsold in his lifetime despite Theo's dealing door. The instrument is that closed market, not a later auction and not a 1990 museum. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Income Inequality.

Van Gogh's pictures remain largely unsold in his lifetime despite Theo's dealing door
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Van Gogh's pictures remained largely unsold in his lifetime despite Theo's dealing door. The instrument is that closed market, not a later auction and not a 1990 museum. Vincent van Gogh's documented role is: He painted. Theo offered stock. Dealers and buyers did not take it. Later millions are reception, not 1887. One lifetime unsold-file, not each refused canvas.

Context

Theo is the named dealer-brother. Sharing that failed door is required. Potato Eaters visibility is a different path. The setting of Van Gogh's pictures remain largely unsold in his lifetime despite Theo's dealing door is the public file around 1887-06-01. Driver income-inequality is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of Van Gogh's pictures remain largely unsold in his lifetime despite Theo's dealing door. Naming Vincent van Gogh does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1887-06-01 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.

Why it matters

Worsening path from Van Gogh's pictures remain largely unsold in his lifetime despite Theo's dealing door on 1887-06-01. A lifetime closed market around a producing painter is an inequality path. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Vincent van Gogh

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    He painted. Theo offered stock. Dealers and buyers did not take it. Later millions are reception, not 1887. One lifetime unsold-file, not each refused canvas.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactVan Gogh's pictures remain largely unsold in his lifetime despite Theo's dealing door
    2. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

    impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 June 1887 · verified

    A lifetime closed market around a producing painter is an inequality path.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Vincent van Gogh, Goupil neighbourhoodEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Van Gogh Museum — Vincent's life chronologyVan Gogh Museum · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: Van Gogh Museum — recognition in his lifetime 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, reception in life at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Van Gogh Museum — recognition in his lifetime 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, reception in life (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: a sourced public record of Van Gogh's pictures remain largely unsold in his lifetime despite Theo's dealing door under 1887-06-01 for Vincent van Gogh. Established: a sourced public record of Van Gogh's pictures remain largely unsold in his lifetime despite Theo's dealing door under 1887-06-01.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Van Gogh's pictures remain largely unsold in his lifetime despite Theo's dealing door are separate paths.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorVincent van Gogh
  2. contributed toFactVan Gogh's pictures remain largely unsold in his lifetime despite Theo's dealing door
  3. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

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Factrail. (2026). Van Gogh's pictures remain largely unsold in his lifetime despite Theo's dealing door. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-unsold

https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-unsold

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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