梵高绝笔作创作地确定
Site of Van Gogh' last painting A postcard has led experts to identify the place where Vincent van Gogh likely painted his final masterpiece. Wouter van der Veen, the scientific director of the Institut van Gogh, found a postcard dating from 1900 to 1910 showing tree trunks and roots growing on a hillside - this, he thought, showed a similar scene to that in Van Gogh's "Tree Roots." The fanciful and bright painting, an oil on canvas that was never fully completed, is thought to be the painter's last work before he died on July 29, 1890. After submitting his theory to two researchers at the Van Gogh Museum and a vegetation specialist, Van der Veen got the good news. Experts concluded it was "highly plausible" the painting's location - 150 meters from the Auberge Ravoux, the inn in Auvers-sur-Oise where Van Gogh spent the final 70 days of his life - had been discovered. |