Dutch museum discovers new Van Gogh

A still life depicting a bouquet of flowers painted by Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh in 1886 has been authenticated in a study which used a new x-ray technique, a Dutch museum spokeswoman said Tuesday. "With this new radiography, there was no more doubt," Kroller-Muller Museum spokeswoman Sylvia Gentenaar told AFP.
"Still life with meadow flowers and roses" - in Kroller-Muller's possession since 1974, was declared a genuine Van Gogh notably after some particular characteristics were identified within the pigments used in the painting. The new study also revealed Van Gogh painted the still life over two wrestlers, said Gentenaar of the painting which from Tuesday will be on display at the museum in Otterloo in the eastern Netherlands. The study, done by Delft and Antwerp Universities, the Van Gogh and Kroller-Muller museums and the DESY research centre for particle physics in Hamburg, showed the wrestlers to be of a typical Van Gogh design.