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Thursday, 12 September 2013

New van Gogh painting discovered: 'Sunset at Montmajour'


Van Gogh Museum director Axel Ruger, and senior researcher Louis van Tilborgh, right, unveil the newly discovered painting by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh during a press conference at the museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday September 9, 2013.
More than 120 years after Vincent van Gogh's death, a new painting by the Dutch master has come to light.Van Gogh is believed to have completed the relatively large painting in 1888, two years before his death and during "a period that is considered by many to be the culmination of his artistic achievement," Ruger said.The picture depicts a landscape in the vicinity of Arles in the south of France, where van Gogh was working at that time, the museum said.see photo after the cut...

The discovery is the first full size canvas that has been found since 1928 and will be on display from September 24.
The "Sunset at Montmajour" was painted in 1888. The museum has identified the painting after "extensive research into style, technique, paint, canvas, the depiction, Van Gogh's letters and the provenance."

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