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Show Ala The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Sunday, Sep Disputed Van Goghs Displayed THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — The art establish- ment has rejected them as fakes. But six drawings of well-known Arles landmarks bought for a song go on display in Paris this monthas authentic works of Vincent Van Gogh. Slightly yellowed by time, the charcoal and black chalk drawings surfaced three years ago in an antique shop outside that southerncity. “They were onthefloer, fanned out because the frame was too small,” recalled Francesco Plateroti, the Italian collector who purchased the drawings for about $80. “The signature, Vincent, wasn’tvisible.” Plateroti believes the drawings once decorated Van Gogh’s room and surmises they vanished after the artist, who suffered from dementia and died in 1890, was confined to a hospital. “The drawings probably were “Obvious fakes,” sniffed the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam whenthe story broke in 1992. For the Orsay Museum of 19th-century art in Paris, the drawings were Kasparov Faces Indian Challenger for Chess Title That did not deter Plateroti, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — A proud, egodriven Russian championfaces a modest, soft-spoken Indian chal- who gave up his business dealings lenger Mondayas the world chess in real estate and tourism to work full-time on proving that the drawingsare the real McCoy. He plunged into Van Gogh's correspondence with his brother Theo, and discovered dozens of references to the drawings — and most important — to the faces of artists such as Gauguin and Petrarch which he camouflaged behind the bucolic scenes. X-rays of “Le Chateau de Tarascon,”’ and “Le Pont de Gleizes” reveal outlines of Van Gogh's self-portraits worked into the drawings. Today, they are practicaily invisible to the naked eye. Armedwith a certificate of authenticity handed down by the Paris police laboratory, Plateroti plans to take on the skeptics in a worldwide, money-making tour. The Van Gogh Museumsaidit had notchangedits position. championship gets under way atop the World Trade Center. At stake: $1 million — and a crown owned by Garry Kasparov since he seized it in 1985 as the youngestchess titlist in history. “childish.” yer 10, 1995 Kasparov, 32, faces Viswan- athan Anand of India in his fifth title defense. The Azerbaijanborn Kasparov, who lives in Mos- cow, has never lost a one-on-one series. The Professional Chess Associ- Kasparovsaid. “He’s really wellplaced to be a very strong and dangerous chalienger.”” Charismatic and outspoken, Kasparov is used to getting his way.Hebitterly fought the Soviet sports establishment, speaking out against it in a dramatic 1985 Moscow news conference predating the reforms that opened Soviet society. 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