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\n\tThe Van Gogh Museum<\/a> in Amsterdam said on Friday that a long-lost portrait was, in fact, not by Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, contradicting a 458-page report by the New York\u2013based firm\u00a0LMI Group International<\/a> that claimed it was by the famed painter.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe painting in question, titled\u00a0Elimar<\/em>\u00a0(1889), depicts a fisherman with a round hat on his head and a pipe in his mouth. The fisherman appears transfixed as he repairs his net near a shore. The word \u201cElimar,\u201d presumed to be the man\u2019s name, is scrawled in the lower righthand corner.<\/p>\n

\n\tLMI Group said that the portrait would have been created while van Gogh was at the Saint-Paul psychiatric sanitarium in Saint-R\u00e9my-de-Provence, France. Van Gogh had checked himself into the sanitarium; he remained there from May 1889 and May 1890.<\/p>\n

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\n\tTo assess the painting, LMI Group assembled a team of roughly 20 experts from a variety of fields, including chemists, curators, and patent lawyers. In 2019, the firm paid an undisclosed sum for the work, purchasing it from an anonymous antiques collector who found it at a Minnesota garage sale<\/a>. The company put more than $30,000\u00a0into investigating the work.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement, LMI Group said, \u201cThe authentication of van Gogh artworks is complicated and inherently rife with challenges due to the long history of fakes and forgeries permeating the market. Central to these di\ufb03culties are previously unattributed works created by the artist but never mentioned in his letters, as well as artworks mentioned but never found\u2014potentially as many as 300.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe firm went on to question the museum\u2019s methods, saying it was \u201cpuzzled why the Van Gogh Museum invested less than one working day to summarily reject the facts presented [\u2026] without offering any explanation, let alone studying the painting directly rather than looking at it reproduced as a JPEG.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe painting\u2019s previous owner had allegedly also contacted the museum in 2018, but any further examination of the work was declined based on the image.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Van Gogh Museum is known for its rigorous authentication process, which often results in the outright rejection of most attribution requests. The museum has considered up to 200 authentication requests per year, \u201c99% of which could not be attributed to Van Gogh in our opinion,\u201d a Van Gogh Museum spokeswoman told the Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em> this week. <\/p>\n

\n\tMore recently, as requests increased to roughly 500 per year, the museum changed its process to only consider those that have had additional approval from galleries, auction houses, or art professionals, leaving around 40 candidates per year.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe expected the Museum to delineate any specific facts in our extensive report with which its experts disagree and the reasons why, and to delineate facts that the Museum might have that it believes change the attribution and why with particularity. We have offered to connect the Museum with the scholars and scientists who contributed to the report to discuss their findings, and we have offered to bring the painting to Amsterdam for further study in person,\u201d LMI Group said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Van Gogh Museum did not immediately respond to ARTnews<\/em>\u2019s for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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