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A Novel Way to Authenticate a Van Gogh

August 9, 2012 by Marion Maneker

It’s curious that they’ve got such a precise value on the painting should it prove to be a Van Gogh but researchers plan to use a hair embedded deeply in the paint on a disputed painting to determine if the DNA is related to current Van Gogh descendants:

If confirmed a Van Gogh, the painting could fetch a value of £39 million and make Cologne art collector Markus Roubrocks, its owner, a multi millionaire.

The bright painting of a vase of multicoloured peonies resting on a wooden floor was discovered in a Belgian attic in 1977, and since then debate has raged in the art world whether it is the work of the Dutch master.

Vincent van Gogh painting to be determined by rogue hair (Telegraph)

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