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Van Gogh museum dismisses $50 garage sale painting as fake despite $15m claim
A painting once scooped up at a Minnesota garage sale for just $50 has stirred the art world, with some claiming it could be a lost Vincent van Gogh masterpiece. But according to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, that claim just doesn’t hold up. The painting, titled Elimar, shows a fisherman smoking a pipe and was allegedly painted around 1889. New York-based LMI Group International purchased the work in 2019 and launched a full-scale investigat…
Vincent van Gogh painting worth $15 million bought at Minnesota garage sale for $50 ruled ‘not authentic’
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam determined that "Elimar," the oil on canvas depicting a fisherman smoking a pipe, painted around 1889, was not an original piece of work by the Dutch painter.
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