Piece accepted as Van Gogh was work of another artist · 2007-08-03 19:29
A painting long thought to be by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh has been proven to be the work of another artist, an Australian gallery has announced.
The painting, entitled Head of a Man, has been owned by the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne since 1940 and had been valued at around ??10.5m.
But after a series of tests, experts in Amsterdam concluded it was most likely to have been painted by a contemporary, BBC informs.
The artwork depicts a curly-haired, bearded man against a brown background.
In a statement released on Friday, gallery director Gerard Vaughan said the piece had been accepted as a Van Gogh for more than 10 years before the gallery bought it.
"The reattribution of paintings is part of the daily life in any major gallery," he said.
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