Two US museums plan to investigate their Gauguins after art sleuth says they are fake

Former Tahitian resident Fabrice Fourmanoir helped The Art Newspaper correctly

identify a fake in the Getty Museum's collection earlier this year

In Women and a White Horse he believes that the background vegetation is more typical

of Tahiti than the Marquesas.

Both paintings have reasonably firm provenances stretching back to around 1908, but it is

unclear how they reached Europe after Gauguin’s death five years earlier. Women and a

White Horse was bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in 1948 and The Invocation was