“Lost” Vincent Van Gogh Still Life Found Using Science
The painting has the creative title “Still Life With Roses And Field Flowers”. Using the newest technologies, the latest high-tech x-ray imaging gave scholars a way to see UNDERNEATH the painting.
Using x-ray technology, art historians were able to see beneath the painting and finally confirm that is was an original Van Gogh. In the past, this painting was x-rayed, but the historians were not able to clearly see what was underneath it. So many questions were asked, because there were so many parts about it that were strange. But, this new technology gave them a much clearer image, so that they were able to identify it as one of Van Gogh's. For over a century, this huge still life canvas (100 × 80 cm) passed in and out of private collections as painted by Anonymous. Then, in 2012, new x-ray technologies allowed museums to look at the painting beneath the flowers, revealing a partially finished portrait of two men wrestling. This new insight was combined with a letter Van Gogh wrote to his brother about a “big thing with two naked torsos, two wrestlers” that he had painted and liked. They thought that the wrestler painting had either been lost to time, or painted over to save the cost of a new canvas.
Using x-ray technology, art historians were able to see beneath the painting and finally confirm that is was an original Van Gogh. In the past, this painting was x-rayed, but the historians were not able to clearly see what was underneath it. So many questions were asked, because there were so many parts about it that were strange. But, this new technology gave them a much clearer image, so that they were able to identify it as one of Van Gogh's. For over a century, this huge still life canvas (100 × 80 cm) passed in and out of private collections as painted by Anonymous. Then, in 2012, new x-ray technologies allowed museums to look at the painting beneath the flowers, revealing a partially finished portrait of two men wrestling. This new insight was combined with a letter Van Gogh wrote to his brother about a “big thing with two naked torsos, two wrestlers” that he had painted and liked. They thought that the wrestler painting had either been lost to time, or painted over to save the cost of a new canvas.
The now authenticated still life finally sits in the Antwerp Kröller-Müller Museum, reunited with other Van Gogh works of art.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/22/world/europe/new-van-gogh-painting-found/
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