'New' Van Gogh drawing unveiled in Amsterdam
The Amsterdam museum verified and put on display a previously unknown drawing by famous Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, Deutsche Welle reported.
"This one has never been seen before anywhere," Teio Meedendorp, senior researcher at the Van Gogh Museum, told the AFP news agency.
The "Study for 'Worn Out'" closely resembles another drawing already owned by the museum, albeit with a slight change of perspective. Both of them are believed to show an elderly laborer named Jacobus Zuyderland, who was 72 at the time.
It is noted that the "Study for 'Worn Out'" came into possession of a well-known Van Gogh collector, Henk Bremmer, who sold it to a Dutch family in 1910. It has since passed through generations until it reached its current owner, who wished to stay anonymous.
The owner approached the museum last year after the officials asked for help in documenting privately owned Van Gogh paintings.