One of the last commitments of this prodigious "jack of all trades" was to be passionate about the astonishing discovery of 65 drawings by Van Gogh from the archives of the owners of the Café de la Gare, the Ginoux couple...
On a visit with the artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel to the expert Franck Baille, he was enthusiastic when contemplating one by one the 65 sheets produced during the artist's stay in Arles and St Remy, storming that no Curator of Musée Français has formed its own idea of the historical value of this set, which some of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam contests. Co-screenwriter of the film directed by Schnabel "At Eternity Gate", broadcast by Netflix, he will largely include throughout the unfolding, the story of this great sketchbook. Notebook which is currently the subject of ink analyzes which contradict the thesis put forward by certain Dutch historians on the seniority of this one.
Frank BAILLE