Van Gogh's "Baz with carnations" was never intended to be shown or even given away. The painting passed to the heiress to the camart fortune, catherine cresgy,. She gave it without restriction, meaning the d i a, as it's known, could do with it what they wanted. When she died in 19 90, she willed vaswith carnations to the detroit institute of art. It took years to resolve that particular discrepancy and lots of people began to think vas with carnations was a fake.