Missing Van Gogh Unveiled

A missing Van Gogh unveiled by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Van Gogh Museum - hat tip Atlas Shrugs

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Van Gogh Museum have discovered a new painting by Vincent van Gogh. The work is concealed under a later painting, Ravine (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). The hidden composition came to light in an x-ray photograph and appears to show a remarkable resemblance to a drawing at the Van Gogh Museum entitled Wild vegetation. This discovery provides new insights into the place that this drawing occupies in Van Gogh’s oeuvre and Van Gogh’s practice of painting over previous works around 1889. It also reveals a new motif (wild vegetation) that Van Gogh painted in Saint-Rémy in addition to for example wheatfields and cypresses.

The hidden composition can be dated to June 1889. Van Gogh had already >>>