VAN GOGH
AUTHENTICATION

We authenticate paintings, drawings, prints and letters of Vincent van Gogh using the following authentication technologies, methods and approaches:

  • Documentary research in the Netherlands
  • Documentary research in France
  • Documentary research in international reference material
  • Provenance research wherever past owners resided
  • Stylistic analysis
  • Technical analysis
  • Chronological analysis
  • Forensic examination of signature, numbers, inscriptions, handwriting
  • Forensic investigation of all applied references
  • Consistency checks
  • Dating of support
  • Dating of media
  • Scientific tests of materials
  • X-rays
  • Ultraviolet
  • Infrared
  • Special photography

If you have a painting or some other artwork by Vincent van Gogh that has not been authenticated, let’s have a conversation about it.