A garage sale in Minnesota took a wild turn when someone bought an old painting for just $50. The artwork showed a ...

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam determined that "Elimar," the oil on canvas depicting a fisherman smoking a pipe, painted around 1889, was not an original piece of work by the Dutch painter.

He first came across the Henning Elimar hypothesis through art historian Victor Rafael Veronesi, and noted how the artist’s paintings found online “share similar color patterns, the same ...

An Elimar painting signed “Elimar” could actually be by Elimar? That certainly sounds more plausible. So connoisseurs are not helping out the owners of the former flea-market painting.

LMI was aware of the museum's declaration and included it in its 2025 report on "Elimar." Note: The above video first aired on Jan 29, 2025. More from CBS News.

Through Elimar, van Gogh creates a form of spiritual self-portrait, allowing viewers to see the painter as he wished to be remembered.” Meanwhile, art authenticator Richard Polsky, ...

Elimar with Michael Ancher’s Portrait of Niels Gaihede. Courtesy LMI Group International, Inc. After the data science art research firm LMI Group sent out a press release attributing the ...

Did Vincent van Gogh paint a portrait that sold for less than $50 at a Minnesota garage sale? It depends who you ask. The painting, called "Elimar" – a reference to a word scrawled in its bottom ...

Elimar first surfaced in 2016 “at a garage sale held at a residence in Minnetonka, Minnesota”. LMI say the price was “very nominal”, with press reports suggesting that it was less than $50.

Did Vincent van Gogh paint a portrait that sold for less than $50 at a Minnesota garage sale? It depends who you ask. The painting, called "Elimar" – a reference to a word scrawled in its bottom ...

LMI Group International recently published a 450-page report seeking to prove a painting, "Elimar," found in Minnesota in 2016 and bought for $50, was the work of Vincent van Gogh.

A painting bought at a Minnesota garage sale in 2016 is actually a lost “orphaned” artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh that could be worth millions.