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New Van Gogh Surfaces

Work created during stay at asylum

By Sam Biddle,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 3, 2007 6:20 PM CDT

(Newser) – A previously undiscovered Van Gogh has been found hiding in plain sight—beneath another painting. Conservators at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts X-rayed The Ravine, revealing another painting created several months earlier, the MFA and the Van Gogh Museum said today. A pen-and-ink drawing of the concealed painting, Wild Vegetation, is in the Amsterdam institution.

Van Gogh sometimes painted over older works when money and supplies were lacking. He apparently painted Wild Vegetation during an 1889 stint at an asylum in the south of France and painted over it after receiving a shipment of supplies from his brother, Theo. The existence of the painted original had only been speculated on until now.

People arrive for the inauguration of the exhibition 'Van Gogh. The last landscapes. Auvers-sur-Oise May20th-July 29th 1980' at the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, in Madrid, Monday, June 11, 2007. Beginning Tuesday, Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum brings together 29 works in what is billed as a first-ever exhibit to focus on the famous...
People arrive for the inauguration of the exhibition 'Van Gogh. The last landscapes. Auvers-sur-Oise May20th-July 29th 1980' at the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, in Madrid, Monday, June 11, 2007. Beginning...   (Associated Press)
The 1889 drawing Wild Vegetation by Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)  is seen in this image released by Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum, Friday, Aug. 3, 2007. The painting Wild Vegetation was discovered, concealed under another painting, in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The work, painted in June 1889, was...
The 1889 drawing "Wild Vegetation" by Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) is seen in this image released by Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum, Friday, Aug. 3, 2007. The painting "Wild Vegetation" was discovered,...   (Associated Press)
A museum patron visits an exhibition dedicated to the works of Van Gogh. Due to Van Gogh's poverty, he often reused canvasses, resulting in the long-lost painting's original disappearance. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
A museum patron visits an exhibition dedicated to the works of Van Gogh. Due to Van Gogh's poverty, he often reused canvasses, resulting in the long-lost painting's original disappearance. (AP Photo/Daniel...   (Associated Press)
A finger points to 'Wheat Field, 1890' of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, during the inauguration of the exhibition 'Van Gogh. The last landscapes. Auvers-sur-Oise May 20th-July 29th 1980' at the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, in Madrid, Monday, June 11, 2007. Beginning Tuesday, Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum brings together 29 works in...
A finger points to 'Wheat Field, 1890' of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, during the inauguration of the exhibition 'Van Gogh. The last landscapes. Auvers-sur-Oise May 20th-July 29th 1980' at the Thyssen...   (Associated Press)
In a related discovery, this photo released by the National Gallery of Victoria shows a painting wrongly attributed to Vincent Van Gogh for more than 70 years. The painting was revealed as a fake Friday, Aug. 3, 2007 after art experts found it was probably painted by one his peers....
In a related discovery, this photo released by the National Gallery of Victoria shows a painting wrongly attributed to Vincent Van Gogh for more than 70 years. The painting was revealed as a fake Friday,...   (Associated Press)
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