Researchers at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum in the new directory launched a new version about a self-portrait of the artist 1887

Vincent Van Gogh
Self. 1887
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Vincent Van Gogh
Portrait of Theo van Gogh. 1887
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Researchers at Amsterdam's Van Gogh museum yesterday told of his discovery: the work of famous Dutch, traditionally considered a self-portrait, in fact - the image of the artist's younger brother, Theo.

Vincent van Gogh wrote not a single portrait of Theo, and this is strange, because the brothers were always very close to Theo, who was younger than Vincent for 5 years and later became a highly successful Parisian art dealer and long time support to borrow money, and Most of the letters addressed to Vincent was Theo. His younger brother is always with admiration for the older, worried about his health and even named his son after him.

So this strange creative "coldness" of Van Gogh in relation to his brother due now negligence of previous generations of researchers. Head of Scientific Center of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Louis van Tilborg restored justice, saying that a man in a light hat and dark blue jacket on the portrait in 1887 by none other than Theo van Gogh.

"This conclusion is based on some obvious external differences between the brothers," - write the researchers of the museum, paying attention to the clean-shaven cheeks and ears, roundness, Theo, that, according to researchers, significantly differs from its image appearance by Vincent.

According to scientists, "the color of his beard Theo rather golden-brown, not red, like Vincent," and "eye color and clothing style men to support the new version of the portrait».

«The man shown in the picture is very similar to Theo in the photos", - told the Dutch news agency van Tilborg ANP.

Theo van Gogh died in 1891, through Six months after the death of Vincent, shot himself at the age of 37 years in the French village of Auvers in July 1890.

results were published in shestisotstranichnom directory, compiled by van Tilborgom together with three other members of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Prepared Estrova Maria, AI

Source: vangoghmuseum.nl , afp.com , telegraph.co.uk , artinvestment.ru