When I decided to make the newly resurfaced Van Gogh the starting point of my talk here, I though, naively it turned out, to be on the same wave length as the present one could get. With the recent case of the Gurlitt discovery in an apartment in Munich, I have to admit that I am as much in delay as most artists are according to the ultracontemporary artist Thierry Geoffroy a.k.a. Colonel.