The painting purchased for $ 50 for yard sales is 15 million worthy van Gogh, experts say

Whether this painting Vincent van Goghin Previously unknown work? The painting shows a fisherman who repaired its network and found in 2016 in yard sellers in Minnesota, USA.

The price was $ 50, but if it is really reinforced by Dutch Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), its value increases significantly. In that case, its price estimate, according to art experts, would rise to up to $ 15 million, or about $ 14.4 million. For example The Wall Street Journal.

Painting The buyer was already freshly painting van Gogh, but the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam did not find it genuine based on the styles when the buyer asked about it in 2018.

The work has not been signed and Van Gogh has not previously been known to have painted such a work. The work is now referred to as the name Elimarfor that word is written on the fisherman’s sleeve.

At the end of 2019, the buyer decided to sell the painting to the LMI Group research company. Founded in 2018, the company specializes in data -based art analysis, combined with more traditional visual art research methods.

LMI used four years to study the work. After being completed, it released nearly 500 pages research reportwhere the painting is placed in both a more general art history context and in Van Gogh’s production.

In addition, the painting is subjected to data-based analysis, which compares, for example, the word Elimar seen in the painting with other texts seen in Van Gogh’s works. Of course, studies have also focused on materials and painting techniques in the work.

Elimar The study has been updated for 1889, the year preceding Van Gogh’s death. The word elimar refers Hans Christian Andersen novel Two baroners (1848) with a character called Elimar.

According to LMI Michael Ancherin from painting Skagen fisherman Niels Gaihede arranges yarn eli Skagenian fisherman Niels GaiHede corrects the network. The LMI study deals with Van Gogh’s way of making his own versions of other artists’ works. At the same time, the replication of old champions is a traditional study method.

Neither do It is not impossible that Van Gogh’s previously unknown works can still be found. He did not keep an accurate record of all his works, and according to the LMI research report, there may still be more than 20 paintings in Van Gogh’s recent years at Saint-Rémy, where he was a mental patient during 1889-1890.

So far, the authenticity of the board has only been studied by LMI, and the Van Gogh Museum, for example, has not commented on LMI research or changed its previous statement on the authenticity of the painting. LMI invites researchers and art merchants to explore the painting on the spot in the company’s hometown of New York, The Artnet Art site says.