by Megan Gannon, September 09, 2013

A major new painting by Vincent van Gogh has been discovered. It is called, “Sunset at Montmajour”.

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam unveiled the long-lost landscape painting today (Sept. 9) following an investigation that showed the style, technique, paint, canvas and subject matter matched with other works from the peak of the Dutch artist's career.

The painting originally belonged to the collection of Theo van Gogh, the artist's brother, and was sold in 1901. Shortly thereafter, the artwork ended up in the hands of a Norwegian collector who tucked it away in his attic after it was declared a fake.

As recently as the 1990s, the painting's authenticity was rejected by the museum. But now the researchers say, “Stylistically and technically speaking, there are plenty of parallels with other paintings by van Gogh from the summer of 1888”.

The newly identified painting also shows signs of the same discoloration that has come to characterize van Gogh's work in recent years. The bright yellows in many of his paintings have been turning into muddy browns.

The researchers even found two references to the work in van Gogh's letters, in which he is critical of the painting and declared it unsuccessful.

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