Lost van Gogh Is Found

NEW YORK (The New York Times)—A few days after a van Gogh at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, was determined to be a fake, a lost van Gogh has been discovered, the New York Times reports. The painting was found below the surface of another work by the artist, Ravine, owned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Conservator Meta Chavannes discovered the painting beneath the painting during a technical examination.

The work was likely made in June 1889, when van Gogh was at the asylum of St.-Paul-de-Mausole. Louis van Tilborgh, a curator at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, compared it to Wild Vegetation, a drawing van Gogh sent his brother Theo in the middle of that year. While scholars have long believed that the drawing was a copy of a painting that van Gogh sent to Theo, until now no one had been able to identify a painting upon which the drawing could have been based.