A Japanese museum is hosting its first-ever exhibition dedicated to Vincent van Gogh, which explores the Dutch painter’s ...

Hidden on the reverse side of the painting "Head of a Peasant Woman," which Van Gogh completed in 1885, was a previously unknown self-portrait of the Dutch painter staring back at them.

The NGS added that, at the time, “Head of a Peasant Woman” was likely considered more “finished” than the Van Gogh self-portrait. The painting changed hands several times until it went to ...

A Van Gogh self-portrait has been discovered on the reverse of a painting at the National Galleries of Scotland. The ghostly image of the artist was found when Head of a Peasant Woman (1885) was ...

The artist’s nephew, Vincent Willem van Gogh (named after the artist), exchanged the two drawings for 35 packets of butter, each weighing 250 grams, along with some bacon and possibly some other ...

Art conservators were examining Van Gogh's 1885 piece "Head of a Peasant Woman," and when an X-ray machine was used on it, the portrait was revealed on the back of the painting. "Moments like this ...

Vincent Van Gogh painted three dozen self-portraits in just 10 years. That’s really a lot (there are about the same number of extant paintings by Johannes Vermeer). But now, miraculously, it ...

LONDON, UK — A previously unknown self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh has been discovered behind another of the artist's paintings, the National Galleries of Scotland said Thursday. The self ...

Senior Curator Frances Fowle viewed "Head of a Peasant Woman" by Vincent Van Gogh on June 19, 2022. A previously unknown self-portrait of Van Gogh has been discovered behind the painting.

Unlike in some of the artist’s later self-portraits, Van Gogh’s left ear is clearly visible in the X-ray. He famously cut it off in December 1888 after an argument with fellow artist Paul Gauguin.

The self-portrait was found beneath layers of cardboard and glue on the back of another Van Gogh painting called “Head of a Peasant Woman” after it was X-rayed ahead of an upcoming exhibition ...