Van Gogh self-portrait real
梵高病中自画像系真迹

gloomy忧郁的

genuine真迹

uncertainty不确定性

self-portrait自画像

brushwork笔法

asylum避难所，精神病医院

A gloomy self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh was declared genuine after decades of uncertainty, experts identifying it as the only work painted by the Dutch master while he suffered from psychosis.

The "Self Portrait （1889）" - which shows the artist giving a haunted sideways glance against a swirling blue and yellow background - was confirmed as authentic by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Questions were first raised about whether the painting - owned by the National Gallery in Oslo, - was genuine as far back as 1970 but the Norwegian museum finally decided to end the doubts only in 2014, sending it to Dutch experts.

Using X-ray analysis of the canvas, studies of the brushwork and references to letters to his brother Theo, experts established it was painted while Van Gogh was in an asylum in Saint-Remy in France in the late summer of 1889.

新闻来源：China Daily