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A self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh is auctioned at Gallerie Fisher, an Auction House in Lucerne, Switzerland) in 1939. It was one of the works branded as Degenerate art by the Nazis, confiscated and sold. The winning bid for this work was $US 40.000 by Dr. Frankfurter.

Retrieved from www.olinda.com, 31 December 2007. The copyright holder is not stated.

[edit] Fair use rationale

This low resolution image is used in Degenerate art, which details a notorious historical event, when thousands of modern art works were banned and confiscated by the Nazis, exhibited as degenerate, and some finally auctioned off in Switzerland. This image shows a work by Vincent van Gogh in such an auction. It is a striking event and therefore of considerable benefit to the reader to be able to see this image of it. It is considered that this will not cause commercial harm to the original author of this image. It is believed that this is fair use and does not infringe copyright. There is no known free alternative available.

According to section 107 of the United States Copyright Act of 1976 :

The fair use of a copyrighted work...for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.[1]

The image is used for non-profit purposes. This factor is noted as relevant by the Act.

This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content#Audio clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article " Degenerate Art" :

To illustrate the subject in question
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([2]),

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.

To the uploader: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed non-free use rationale.

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current	22:45, 31 December 2007	458×297 (38 KB)	Tyrenius (Talk \| contribs)	(A self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh is auctioned at Gallerie Fisher, an Auction House in Lucerne, Switzerland) in 1939. It was one of the works branded as Degenerate art by the Nazis, confiscated and sold. The winning bid for this work )