Art
Van Gogh Self-Portrait Is Genuine, Study Finds, Ending Decades of Doubt
The contested painting by Vincent van Gogh, a 1889 self-portrait.
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Amsterdam (AP) -- After years of doubts about its authenticity, experts in Amsterdam have confirmed that a Vincent van Gogh self-portrait was indeed painted by the Dutch master as he recovered in a French asylum from a mental breakdown.
Van Gogh Museum researcher Louis van Tilborgh dispelled the doubts Monday, saying the oil-on-canvas painting of the anguished-looking painter was completed in the late summer of 1889 while Van Gogh was at the Saint-Remy asylum in southern France.