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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Christian Abbott

How did Vincent van Gogh die? Real story behind painter’s life as self-portrait found

A previously unknown self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh has just been discovered. It was hidden on the back of one of his other paintings and only through the use of X-ray technology was it uncovered for the first time.

Experts from the National Galleries of Scotland made the find behind one of his earlier works called Head of a Peasant Woman.

Lesley Stevenson, the galleries senior conservator said finding the artist “looking out at us” was a “shock”.

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