'Van Gogh' work revealed as fake

A painting attributed to Vincent Van Gogh in an Australian gallery was revealed as a fake today, after art experts found it was probably painted by one his peers.

A painting attributed to Vincent Van Gogh in an Australian gallery was revealed as a fake today, after art experts found it was probably painted by one his peers.

The director of Australia’s National Gallery of Victoria, Gerard Vaughan, said a specialist team at the Van Gogh Museum in the Netherlands found the painting had strong stylistic differences from the Dutch artist’s other works.

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