Tuesday 15 October 2013

Sunset at Montmajour

Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum on September 23 unveiled a newly discovered landscape painting from the height of the Dutch master's career, abandoned for years as a forgery in a Norwegian attic.

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Vincent van Gogh at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on September 24, 2013. Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum on September 23 unveiled a newly discovered landscape painting from the height of the Dutch master's career, abandoned for years as a forgery in a Norwegian attic.

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On September 23rd, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam unveiled a newly 'discovered' landscape painting from the height of the Dutch master's career.

Entitled: “Sunset at Montmajour”, the landscape was painted the summer of 1888.

Previously deemed to be a forgery the painting,  the work had lain abandoned for years in a Norwegian attic.

  


After subjecting the painting to a combination of modern scientific analytic techniques, including infrared reflectography, Wood's light, IR spectroscopy and other relevant processes, further details - not normally visible to the human eye - were revealed: 













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