Max Ehrenfreund
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Vincent Van Gogh was indeed the painter of a large canvas that languished for years in an attic because no one thought it was his, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has announced:
“Sunset at Montmajour” depicts a dry landscape of oak trees, bushes and sky, painted with Van Gogh’s familiar thick brush strokes. It can be dated to the exact day it was painted because Vincent described it in a letter to his brother, Theo, and said he painted it the previous day — July 4, 1888.
He said the painting was done “on a stony heath where small twisted oaks grow.” .
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Vincent Van Gogh was indeed the painter of a large canvas that languished for years in an attic because no one thought it was his, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has announced:
“Sunset at Montmajour” depicts a dry landscape of oak trees, bushes and sky, painted with Van Gogh’s familiar thick brush strokes. It can be dated to the exact day it was painted because Vincent described it in a letter to his brother, Theo, and said he painted it the previous day — July 4, 1888.
He said the painting was done “on a stony heath where small twisted oaks grow.” .