Van Gogh’ Still Life With Meadow Flowers and Roses is deemed genuine

Still Life With Meadow Flowers and Roses, a painting once thought to be by but later dismissed has now been confirmed as an authentic work by the Dutch master.

The painting, originally considered a Van Gogh, has belonged to a Dutch museum since 1974.

But doubts crept in due to the painting style and the unusual canvas size and it was discredited in 2003.

However, experts have now authenticated the painting as being a Van Gogh using an X-ray technique.

The painting has now been hung in the Van Gogh section of the Kroeller-Mueller museum in Otterlo for the first time.

The work is thought to have come from the period when Vincent Van Gogh’s lived with his brother Theo in Paris from 1886.

Vincent Van Gogh originally painted a canvas of two wrestlers and then painted Still Life With Meadows and Roses over it.

Vincent Van Gogh originally painted a canvas of two wrestlers and then painted Still Life With Meadows and Roses over it photo

Vincent Van Gogh originally painted a canvas of two wrestlers and then painted Still Life With Meadows and Roses over it

Using a new X-ray technique, researchers examined the two wrestlers in more detail.

The brush strokes and pigments pointed to Vincent Van Gogh.

Researchers also discovered the large canvas was a standard format for figure paintings at the Antwerp academy where Van Gogh studied at the time.

A senior researcher at Amsterdam’s , Louis van Tilborgh, took part in the study.

Louis van Tilborgh said the wrestlers posing half-naked in the original painting was characteristic of the Antwerp academy at the time.

Vincent Van Gogh also wrote to his brother saying that he was pleased with how the wrestler painting had turned out.

But Van Gogh later painted directly over it which experts say accounts for the “uncharacteristic exuberance” of the floral still life.

 

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