The lost boat
After looping for an unique picture by Van Gogh for all over the World since 1988, Koito Torishima, a well known millionaire japanese man, found it in a small Art gallery in Buenos Aires. That could be true...
Carlos Rodruigez has painted pictures since he was a child but he has never studied art and he has never interested in famous artists.
However, he used to imitate Van gogh’s style in his art gallery. So he copied the first picture that Van gogh had made when he was nineteen years old. It was called The blue boat.
One day, Kaito decided to travel to Buenos Aires to buy it. He believed his precious paint was in Argentina. When he arrived there, he started to investigate in order to get the gallery adress, because he had some clues about where it could be.
Somebody told him about Carlos Rodriguez, a man who could possible have the painting he was looking for. He send an e-mail to Carlos to make an appaintment to buy him The Blue Boat. Carlos was surprised about it and he realized that it could be a big bussines for him.
When they met, carlos showed him the picture guarateeing that it was the original one. The japanese man was so excited that he not checked it at all and he decided to buy it very quickly, in tne millions dollars.
After the swindole, the japanese man returned to his country with the new picture and carlos could have the big art gallery that he had always dreamt.
By Nicolás Camponnato.
Nicolas Camponnato was born in Buenos Aires in 1943, he lived in Buenos Aires when he was a child, he studied at an elementary school and a high school but he left university before finishing it.
His parents were italian, his mother was a nurse and his father was a butcher. He started to write stories when he was sixteen years old but his most famous story was The Big Train, in 1977 he went to Spain and there he wrote look at the Window; The lost boat and more. In 1996 he returned to Buenos Aires and nowday he is living in Rosario.
