Vincent Lives!
A new landscape painting by Vincent Van Gogh has been authenticated by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
“Sunset at Montmajour” depicts a wooded area near Arles in the south of France.
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The museum said that the work dates from around the same period that Van Gogh created his famous “Sunflowers” painting around 1888.
Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers (1888)
English: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers
Deutsch: Stilleben mit Sonnenblumen
Date: 1888
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 92.1 × 73 cm (36.3 × 28.7 in)
Current location: National Gallery
Source/Photographer: National Gallery, London
The museum said it has spent two years authenticating the piece, using historic records, X-ray analysis and other techniques.
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