Ateneum Art Museum

This guide to the Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki centers on a small Gauguin-signed landscape of a pig and a horse, bought by painters Magnus Enckell and Eero Jarnefelt in 1908 from a Paris dealer and long treated as one of the artist's final works before his death in 1903. It traces the doubts raised in 2021 by self-declared Gauguin sleuth Fabrice Fourmanoir, who had already exposed a fake sculpture at the Getty Museum. His case rests on the brushwork, the signature, the landscape itself, and the absence of any shipping record placing the canvas on a boat leaving the islands.