“From Garage Sale to Gallery: The Shocking Discovery Behind a $50 Painting That Could Be a Van Gogh Masterpiece Worth $15 Million!”
The collector who originally purchased the piece sold it to the art research firm LMI Group International in 2019 for an undisclosed price, after which the group began a thorough analysis of the work. Their findings have now been published in an extensive 450-page report, detailing how they came to conclusion that the painting was created by Vincent van Gogh.
Researchers Claim To Identify One Of Van Gogh’s Lost Translations
Vincent van GoghThe Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh, believed to have been painted around the same time as Elimar.
Vincent van Gogh is best known for his bold, colorful works like The Starry Night and his famous self-portrait. While the newly-rediscovered painting, known as Elimar, lacks some of the distinctive boldness typical of van Gogh’s other works, art historian Maxwell Anderson, chief operating officer of LMI Group, told the Wall Street Journal that the painting showed “telltale signs of a deft painter at play.”
But LMI Group didn’t have to rely on visual analysis alone to attribute the painting to van Gogh. Embedded in the brushwork, Anderson noticed a single hair — one that appears as though it could have come from the famous painter.
“By integrating science and technology with traditional tools of connoisseurship, historical context, formal analysis, and provenance research, we aim both to expand and tailor the resources available for art authentication based on the unique properties of the works under our care,” LMI Group CEO Lawrence Shindell said in a press statement.
