(Source: AP)
A previously unknown landscape painting titled “Sunset at Montmajour” has been discovered, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which holds the largest collection of the artist’s work, announced on September 9.
“Sunset at Montmajour” is a landscape of trees and sky in the vicinity in the south of France. In Van Gogh’s familiar thick brush strokes, it was painted in 1888 but had been lying in the attic of a Norwegian collector.
Van Gogh is believed to have completed the painting two years before his death. The museum said the painting now belongs to an unidentified private Norwegian collector. He bought it in 1908 but dismissed it as a fake.
However thanks to new research techniques and a two-year investigation, it concluded the artwork was by Van Gogh.
“Sunset at Montmajour” will be displayed as part of the artist’s works at the museum, which opens on September 24.
The Van Gogh Museum features 200 works, 140 by the Dutch master himself and the rest by contemporary painters./.
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