In 2016, an American art collector bought a painting at a flea market in the US state of Minnesota for less than $50. The ...

Elimar with Michael Ancher’s Portrait of Niels Gaihede. Courtesy LMI Group International, Inc. Speculation abounds: “One of the reasons he made this remarkable work may have been to prove to ...

Newly attributed to the famed Post-Impressionist painter by art tech firm LMI Group, the artwork, titled Elimar, has undergone extensive scientific and stylistic analysis. The discovery ...

LMI Group International, Inc. The impressionist painting was snapped up at a Minnesota garage sale by an anonymous antiques collector for less than $50 several years ago and is now believed to be ...

The unidentified buyer sold the work to LMI Group International, which has spent $300,000 and utilized around 30 experts in their quest to prove the painting's veracity. LMI sent their lawyer ...

While authenticating the art, a team of roughly 20 experts — from fields including chemistry, art and patent law — joined forces for the New York-based art research firm LMI Group, which ...

“An exhaustive, multi-year investigation of the painting by experts in several fields has yielded the evidence required to identify Elimar as an autograph work by the artist,” New York art-research ...

The group’s findings will be shared with Van Gogh specialists and art dealers around the world later this month, according to the Journal. They argue that the portrait was painted while Van Gogh ...