Van Gogh Museum: new Van Gogh identified

[dipsydoodle]

AMSTERDAM (AP) -- The Van Gogh Museum says it has identified a long-lost Vincent Van Gogh painting, the first full-size canvas by the Dutch master discovered since 1928.

"Sunset at Montmajour" depicts trees, bushes and sky with Van Gogh's familiar thick brush strokes. He described it in a letter to his brother, Theo, saying it was painted on July 4, 1888. Museum experts said it was authenticated by letters, style and materials used, and they had traced its history.

Museum director Axel Rueger described the discovery as a "once in a lifetime experience." The museum has not said who owns the canvas.

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see also ; http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/arts/design/new-van-gogh-painting-discovered-in-amsterdam.html?_r=0

[another_liberal]

1. What a great way to start the day . . .

Thanks for posting this story, dipsydoodle. What a great way to start the day, and the week!

[trusty elf]

2. Cool n/t

[AllyCat]

3. This is really great news!

[ThirdWayCowplop]

4. The Van Gogh Museum is a must see before you die kinda place

Amazing experience and one of the best museums I have ever been too a very intimate experience for a museum.

[DFW]

6. And it's only a three hour train ride from me!

There are other advantages to living in this part of the world than just Döner Kebap sandwiches!

[ThirdWayCowplop]

8. True Coffeshops and Broodje Bert amongst other things to do and see!

[DFW]

9. I usually only run up there for the day, rarely stay the night

My office in the Netherlands is in Gelderland, which is way closer to me than Amsterdam, so I'm not in town much. I don't think I've been there doing touristy things for 20 years. I speak the language, so I should probably slow down and take the time to smell the coffee again one of these years.

[CTyankee]

11. I melted down there in 2011!

I had been over to the Rijksmuseum and saw The Night Watch, which I hadn't seen since I was 16, and then to the Van Gogh. At the last painting of his that I saw there, one with wheat fields and crows, I just inexplicably started to cry. Just a few months ago someone else shared with me that she, too, cried upon seeing a Van Gogh...

[ChazInAz]

12. Me, too.

I was there last November. Standing in that dark room in the Hermitage, with soft spots on his last three paintings, I found myself crying, too. The whole exhibit was overwhelming for me.
Has the collection been moved back to the Van Gogh Museum, yet?

[CTyankee]

13. I didn't know that any of it moved. But the Van Gogh is pretty big. There are 3 floors...

talk about volume of output!

I think I had just too much great art in that trip...I was on a barge going through the Netherlands. I had the day before visited the Hague where I saw View of Delft and Girl with Pearl Earring at the Mauritshuis. View of Delft was mesmerizing (I learned later that Vermeer mixed ground glass in with his paints and it gave the picture a "glistening" effect...he was trying to replicate the moment after a cloudburst and the sun coming out...he certainly achieved that objective, altho you can't see it as well in photos. I will see Girl again when she comes to the Frick in New York in October...

[ChazInAz]

14. Van Gogh was closed in 2012

The Van Gogh Museum was closed for most of 2012 for remodeling and general upgrading. The collection was moved to The Hermitage for that period. I had to find my way through the start of the Christmas celebrations (Sinterklaas Tag) and the attendant hordes of feral children, white horses and Black Pieters to get there. Thank god for the excellent public transport system in Amsterdam!

[CTyankee]

15. I really like Amsterdam. I enjoyed my barge trip, a great way to see a country...

even if it was a bit spartan. The nice thing about it is that you dock in the old parts of their towns so they're very scenic.

Did you also go to Rembrandt's house? Amazingly, I stood in his very studio...

[DFW]

5. Congratulations to the owner! I had a similar experience recently

Not on the scale of a Van Gogh, of course.

But my grandmother, who died in 1966, collected modern art from living artists. Some of them (Alberto Giacometti, e.g.) went on to become famous, some not so. I had always admired an abstract in shades of blue by an American painter named Ad Reinhardt. As he was still living when my grandmother died, my parents could afford the inheritance tax on the painting, as it was only a few hundred dollars at the time. one of my cousins was not so lucky. He wanted one of her Giacometti bronzes, but his parents couldn't afford the $8,000 they would have had to pay to keep it in the family. It later sold for $25,000 in 1967, but when that same piece came up for auction in 2007, it went for $4 million (I had great pity for my cousin when I found out!).

We kept the Reinhardt in my family to this day, and it passed to me when my parents were both gone. But to get it evaluated (I have it on good authority that I won't live forever), I needed it authenticated. No reference on Reinhardt's work included this piece, as no one doing references had ever seen it. So, no one wanted to declare it genuine. We finally got through to the painter's daughter, who dug up his own references to the work, and to whom he had consigned it (the gallery from which, according to my grandmother's estate, she acquired it). Bingo. Finally!

I still like the work, but if it ever becomes worth a million bucks in my lifetime (quite possible according to the art dept. of my friends in Dallas), I will sell it, and after paying the taxes and taking care of my siblings and children, I think I'll have enough left over to invite some friends out for one hell of a bash!

*on edit--it beats cutting off my ear and then committing suicide!

[Flying Squirrel]

7. ... reminds me of ....

[WCLinolVir]

10. Wow, I just love his tight and condensed brushwork and

subjects. Even more than his looser work. Tonal range is classic.