Monday, September 9, 2013

The New Van Gogh Painting

For those who are in both classes with me where we do blogs, it may have become clear that Van Gogh is one of my favorites. I was really excited this morning to wake up to hear there has been an unveiling of a newly authenticated Van Gogh painting from 1888!! It is called Sunset at Montmajour. Van Gogh mentions the work to his brother Theo in a letter, and because of this we know it was painted on July 4, 1888. 



Whenever I hear stories of people finding art works in their attic it makes me think that I'm living in the wrong places. I want to find a painting by a famous artist in my attic! How awesome would that be? I am also fascinated by the different investigation methods used to authenticate the work.

This particular painting is quite beautiful, and upon first glance reminded me of one of the paintings in the Art Institute, which when I just checked online, was painted in the same year. The Art Institute work is The Poet's Garden.


I was very excited to hear about this and I hope you guys think it's as awesome as I do!!
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2 comments:

  1. UnknownSeptember 9, 2013 at 7:31 PM

    Oh my God, I just opened up blogger to post about this. Did not know van Gogh was your favorite too! Its amazing how they finally declared this as an original.

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  2. CyberpedagogySeptember 9, 2013 at 9:39 PM

    this makes me think of 'antique road show' (i think that was the name) where people brought in objects and got them appraised. and i find the fact that discovery of ownership and authorship can so drastically alter the value of an object to be fascinating. if you step away from the names involved.....does the object still bring a sense of visual and aesthetic pleasure? does it still have value? just playing the devil's advocate side here and curious what others think.

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