New Van Gogh Painting Discovered

Everything’s coming up sunflowers for the Van Gogh Museum, which has discovered a new painting by (you guessed it!) Vincent van Gogh. The Amsterdam institution, which reopened in May after a seven-month renovation, revealed “Sunset at Montmajour” (1888, pictured) in all its luminously impastoed glory at a press conference held yesterday.

“A discovery of this magnitude has never before occurred in the history of the Van Gogh Museum,” said director Axel Rüger, who described the painting as a transitional work in Van Gogh’s oeuvre.

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