Experimental scientific analysis has potentially discovered a long-lost painting by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). It was bought for $50 (£40) at a Minnesota garage sale, but if officially reattributed to the popular post-Impressionist artist, it could be worth upwards of $15 million (£12 million).
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A painting by the celebrated Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh, which was stolen in 2020 from the Singer Laren Museum in Amsterdam, was returned last week in an Ikea bag. Art detective Arthur Brand – dubbed the “Indiana Jones of the art world” – played an instrumental role in its return.
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Two climate activists from the group ‘Just Stop Oil’ have been arrested after throwing what appeared to be cans of soup at Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers last Friday at the National Gallery, before gluing themselves to the wall. The activists are part of the ‘Just Stop Oil’ climate change group who have targeted numerous museums recently with similar acts, including the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Manchester City Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts. This is not the first time this year the group have targeted the National Gallery: in July two campaigners superglued their hands to the frame of John Constable’s The Hay Wain.
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The preparations for an upcoming exhibition organised by the National Galleries of Scotland and scheduled to open on 30th July has prompted a new discovery. A Taste for Impressionism: Modern French Art from Millet to Matisse promises to tell “the remarkable story of how Scotland became home to one of the world’s greatest collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art”, but before it has even opened it has attracted media attention, as new research on Vincent Van Gogh’s Head of a Peasant Woman (1884) in the museum’s permanent collection, has led to the discovery of a new self-portrait by the artist.
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A thin vertical strip of paper featuring three early sketches of peasants by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) has been concealed inside a book for over 135 years.
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Two masterpieces by Vincent Van Gogh stolen in an art heist were returned to display at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam last Monday (20 March). Continue reading
Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum is facing legal action after it dismissed a sketchbook allegedly belonging to the Dutch artist as a fake.
The discovery of the album of 65 drawings purported to be by Van Gogh was made in 2013 by art historian Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov who believes it was used by the artist on his travels in the south of France. When the drawings were unveiled at a press conference in Paris in November this year the Van Gogh Museum quickly released a statement entitled “Found Sketchbook With Drawings Is Not By Van Gogh, According to Van Gogh Museum”. Now Le Seuil, the publishing house behind Welsh-Ovcharov’s new book on the drawings “Vincent Van Gogh, the Fog of Arles: the Rediscovered Sketchbook”, has hit back at the museum by threatening to initiate a lawsuit. Continue reading
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