Detective work by art historians has led to them discovering a new Van Gogh painting.
Experts made the find after X-raying a piece that had been attributed to an unknown artist.
The scan of the canvas, ‘Still life with meadow flowers and roses’, pictured below, uncovered an image of two wrestlers painted underneath. Knowledge of the painter’s period at a Belgian art academy combined to lead a team of researchers to conclude it was a Van Gogh.
The X-ray shows the wrestlers wearing loin cloths. Having models pose half-naked was a defining characteristic of the Antwerp academy where Van Gogh studied in 1886. It is thought the wrestlers were a subject the artist grew tired of and painted over.
The painting hangs in Holland’s Kroeller-Mueller Museum.
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