Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunset at Montmajour. Photograph courtesy of the Van Gogh Museum
It is pretty rare that new paintings from established artists surface, but Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum has finally completed years of research to verify a newly discovered painting by the Dutch artist of Sunset at Montmajour.
Van Gogh is one of the most well known artists in the world, with his paintings fetching some of the highest fees in the art world, which meant that the museum were not going to skip any steps of the verifications process.
The painting demonstrates Van Gogh’s signature vivid colour palette and brush strokes, but otherwise is quite different from much of his other works. But through painstaking research, the museum have found the piece to be genuine. This news came after the painting had been stored by its owner in the attic after he was told that it was a fake. Louis van Tilborgh and Teio Meedendorp, two senior researchers of the Van Gogh Museum, said:
“We carried out art historical research into the style, the depiction, use of materials and context, and everything we found indicated that this is a work by Van Gogh.”
