Two new works have been added to Vincent van Gogh's official oeuvre. The discovery of an unknown drawing by the Dutch painter has allowed the authentication of a second sketch.
"This is fantastic; we can definitively add two drawings to Van Gogh's oeuvre," Axel Rüger, the director of the Van Gogh Museum, said on Tuesday, when the news was made public.
An analysis of the subject, style, technique, materials and provenance of a sketch entitled "The Hill of Montmartre with Stone Quarry" has allowed experts to determine that it was drawn by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). The drawing, which belongs to the collection of the Van Vlissingen Art Foundation, was once part of Vincent and Theo van Gogh's own collection and had disappeared from circulation in 1917.
The finding has allowed experts to authenticate a similar work in the Van Gogh Museum collection, known as "Montmartre Hill" (photo above), after it had been rejected a few years ago.
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Women Mending Nets in the Dunes expected to make around US$6m when auctioned in June
The first Van Gogh painting to go under the hammer in France in more than two decades has been unveiled.
Women Mending Nets in the Dunes, which the Dutch artist painted early in his career at Scheveningen near The Hague, is expected to go for around €5m (£4.4m/US$6m) when it is auctioned in June.
But with the art market booming and prices for artists such as Vincent Van Gogh rocketing, experts said it was hard to predict exactly when the bidding would stop.
The scene dates from the same period in 1882 when Van Gogh painted View of the Sea at Scheveningen, which was stolen by the Italian Camorra organised crime syndicate from the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam in 2002 ... ...
The oil on paper, which belongs to a European collector, also graced the walls of the Van Gogh museum for several years after being previously on show in Montreal.
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A large expanse in the dunes in the morning after rain — the grass is very green, relatively speaking, and the black nets are spread out on it in huge circles, creating tones on the ground of a deep, reddish black, green, grey. Sitting, standing or walking on this sombre ground like strange dark ghosts were women in white caps, and men who spread out or repaired the nets
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