In the American state of Minnesota, they bought a picture at a garage sale, experts consider it the work of the Netherland-Premimressionist Vincent Van Gogh. This was reported by the CNN channel experts of the research company LMI Group International.

The story occurred in 2016, then the collector of antiques bought a portrait of a fisherman with a gray beard and a tube that repairs his fishing network. The canvas is written in oil on canvas with the signature "

The work is based on the picture of the Danish artist Michael Acre, in fact this is one of the many translations of Van Gogh of works by other artists. Experts analyzed the weave of the canvas, the paint pigment and other characteristics, and then said that Van Gogh created a picture during his stay in a psychiatric hospital in southern France in 1889.

In the picture they found a hair glued to the canvas, and sent it for analysis. It was established that the hair is male, but it could not be compared with the DNA of the descendants of Van Gogh due to the " Museum of Van Gogh in Amsterdam is still in a hurry to attribute a portrait to the painter.

" It is well known that Van Gogh lost a lot of work, handed out paintings to friends and did not particularly carefully treat any work, and there were many of them, ”said LMI.

The picture is an emotionally saturated and deeply personal work created in the last and stormy head of the life of Van Gogh. The Dutch master created about 900 paintings, art historians added.

Recall that a group of astronomers found out where Van Gogh painted the painting " The work was written between November 5 and 14, 1884.

Focus previously wrote about the famous painting by Van Gogh " On the canvas, the painter captured the subjective vision of the sky.