Vincent Van Gogh secret paintings

Vincent Van Gogh secret paintings
"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream."

These two wrestlers were painted around 1885, when Van Gogh was a 32- year -old art student looking to improve his already prodigious but unrecognized skills. He mentions them in a letter to his brother Theo as an example of what his brother's money was paying for. The problem is that the painting then disappeared from history.

The other side of this historical mystery is the flowers painting. The painting, called Still Life with Meadow Flowers and Roses was obtained by the Dutch museum Kröller-Müller Museum in 1974, and the big question since then has been whether this is really a Van Gogh. The size of the canvas and the gaudy look of the flowers don't look much like Van Gogh, which is why the museum declared the painting to be anonymous in 2003.

Thanks to ultraviolet and X-ray analyses by DESY, the electron synchrotron lab in Hamburg, we know the truth: the two wrestlers were hiding under Still Life with Meadow Flowers and Roses all along. Van Gogh painted the still-life over the wrestlers without even bothering to obscure the original work.

Reference:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/03/disputed-painting-revealed-as-a-van-gogh.html
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