Van Gogh's Tree Roots

In April 2020, during the first Covid-19 lockdown, Wouter van der Veen found himself at home with little to do other than sort through his extensive documentation relating to Van Gogh. While cataloguing some images, he was struck by the resemblance of Van Gogh’s last canvas, painted moments before he shot himself, to a postcard showing a roadside with tangled roots & trunks. It proved to be the most spectacular Van Gogh-related finding of this century to date and spent weeks going viral across the globe. The original scan, as well as the colorized version intended to explain the discovery, were reproduced thousands of times in the most prestigious newspapers and websites all over the world....View all