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The name “Elimar” itself also offered evidence of the work being made by van Gogh. As LMI Group noted, Elimar is the name of a character in Hans Christian Andersen’s The Two Baronesses — and Andersen happened to be a favorite author of van Gogh’s.
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Michael AncherMichael Ancher’s Portrait of Niels Gaihede, the work on which the reputed van Gogh is believed to be based.
Many of van Gogh’s works were lost to time, either because he himself was neglectful or because he gave them away to friends. LMI Group estimated that as many as 300 of his paintings may have been lost, many of which were made during van Gogh’s time at Saint-Rémy, a mental institution where van Gogh spent a year after suffering from a mental crisis that resulted in him cutting of his ear.
During his stay, van Gogh created more than 150 paintings. More than two dozen of these paintings were so-called “translations,” in which van Gogh recreated works by other artists in his own unique style. Elimar is believed to be van Gogh’s interpretation of a piece by the Danish artist Michael Ancher, to whom van Gogh was linked by Mette Sophie Gauguin, the Danish wife of van Gogh’s friend and fellow artist Paul Gauguin.
Vincent van Gogh FoundationAn 1883 painting by van Gogh depicting a fisherman on the shore.
The theme of fishermen was also a recurrent one in van Gogh’s works, reflective of his early desire to become a preacher — the image of a fisherman is related to a description of Christ and his followers in the Bible as “fishers of men.” Van Gogh had previously explored this theme in 1883, and if the analysis of Elimar is accurate, it seems he revisited that theme at Saint-Rémy in 1889, just one year before his death.
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