In 2016, an antiques collector purchased an oil painting of a fisherman for just $50 at a garage sale in Minnesota. Now experts believe the portrait may be a long-lost piece by Vincent van Gogh ...

LMI Group International recently published a 450-page report seeking to prove a painting, "Elimar," found in Minnesota in 2016 and bought for $50, was the work of Vincent van Gogh.

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam says a portrait found in a Minnesota garage sale is not an original by the Dutch master. After an antique collector discovered the painting in 2016, the work was ...

In 1889, Vincent van Gogh committed himself to a psychiatric asylum in Southern France, where he spent a turbulent year creating roughly 150 paintings, including masterpieces such as “Irises ...

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam determined that "Elimar," the oil on canvas depicting a fisherman smoking a pipe, painted around 1889, was not an original piece of work by the Dutch painter.

Antiques collector’s $50 garage sale purchase may be a Van Gogh worth $15 million. ... A painting that sold for less than $50 at a garage sale could be an original Van Gogh worth $15 million, ...

The painting only emerged in 2016 and there is no earlier provenance to link it to Van Gogh, or to explain how it travelled from the asylum at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence to a garage sale in Minnesota.

While the painting has not been authenticated by the Van Gogh Museum, the firm used 20 experts to investigate the painting’s authenticity and stated that it could be worth at least $15 million ...

The museum previously refused to attribute the painting to Van Gogh when approached by the previous owner in December 2018. However, LMI, which acquired the painting in 2019, is confident that it ...

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A painting that sold for less than $50 at a garage sale could be an original Van Gogh worth $15 million, experts say.. The canvas was found by an unsuspecting antiques collector at a Minnesota ...