Antiques collector’s $50 garage sale purchase may be a Van Gogh worth $15 million

A self portrait of the artist Vincent Van Gogh: Experts believe that they have discovered a real Van Gogh painting of a fisherman worth $15 million - (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

A painting that sold for less than $50 at a garage sale could be an original Van Gogh worth $15 million, experts say.

The canvas was found by an unsuspecting antiques collector at a Minnesota garage sale in 2016 and now historians, scientists and curators have teamed up to prove that it is an oil painting by the famed Dutch artist, the Wall Street Journal reports.