PARIS (Reuters) – Stuck at the closure of the house, Dutch researcher Wouter van der Veen, after all, has found time to search for ancient postcards from the French village where Vincent Van Gogh died and made a remarkable discovery.
A postcard that appears with knotty roots and tree trunks along a road in Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, has a commentary similar to the Dutch artist’s lacheck painting, “Tree Roots”.
It is observed that the colorful blue and green portrait is his last work, created on the day it was shot, on July 27, 1890.
He died two days later.
Van der Veen, clinical director of the Van Gogh Institute in Auvers, told Reuters that beyond this year he won a wide variety of postcards from the early 20th century from a 94-year-old woguy from the town of Auvers.
“Like everyone else in France, I blocked and used this time to scan the postcards, when I identified the contours of the tree roots on the map. It was black and white, but the shapes were the same,” van der Veen said.
He sent his discoveries to his colleagues at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, where he hangs the portrait, which coincided with the Daubigbig apple Street postcard, 150 yards from the Ravoux Inn where Van Gogh died, probably oversees the location of his portrait of lacheck.
“The proposed location has an all too accurate choice to be the right one in our opinion. It’s an exceptional discovery,” said Teio Meedendorp, a researcher at the Van Gogh Museum, in conjunction with the Van Gogh Institute, founded by Auvers.
His colleague Louis van Tilborgh, professor of hitale art at the University of Amsterdam, said the museum was first and foremost cautious, but that the description of the trees, the location near the hostel, the studies of a tree specialist and the letters of Van All Gogh’s parents converge to see the place. .
The deception has now been fenced over by politics and would be made for the public to have at a later date.
Van der Veen said the subject of painting, the pruned trees, a message from Van Gogh, a color farewell note about death and regeneration.
“When you cut firewood into a log, new shoots grow. His message that his paintings are over. Later that day, near the cornfields, he shot himself in the chest,” he said.
Additional reports through John Cotton; Written through Geert De Clercq; Edited through Alexandra Hudson
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