LMI International Analyzes Another Painting to Backup Van Gogh Claims
New York-based art research firm LMI International has come out fighting following backlash it faced last month after claiming a painting titled Elimar bought at a Minnesota garage sale for $50 was a long-lost work by Vincent van Gogh. After spending $30,000 on high-tech analysis, the company dated it to 1889 and said it’s worth $15 million. However, several van Gogh specialists have argued that the work was painted by a little-known 20th-century Danish artist called Henning Elimar, who died in 1989. They include Wouter van der Veen, a scholar specializing in the Dutch Post-Impressionist art who previously worked for Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum. He said the text “Elimar” in the bottom right-hand corner of Elimar is not its title (as LMI believes) but the artist’s signature. But LMI has now doubled down, by buying and analyzing what it claims is one of only two surviving works by the late Danish artist, titled Bridge and Stream, in a bid to prove he did not also paint Elimar. “Throughout the years-long research process of studying the …
