Editing Michael Ancher (section)

== Newly-discovered Van Gogh copy ==
In 2016, a painting was purchased for less than $50 at a [[garage sale]] in [[Minnesota]], bearing the inscription 'Elimar'. After speculation that the work was by Dutch artist [[Vincent van Gogh]], it was brought to the art research firm LMI Group International in NYC in 2019, who after four years of research ultimately attributed the painting to Van Gogh.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Guy |first=Jack |date=2025-01-30 |title=Painting found at garage sale is a Van Gogh, experts say |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/30/style/garage-sale-van-gogh-elimar-scli-intl/index.html |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref> From 2020-2025, the work went under investigation by a team of around 20 experts, and numerous pieces of evidence have been put forward in a 456 page report to prove the work's authenticity; analyzation of the canvas weave, radiocarbon dating, paint [[Pigment|pigments]] and overall characteristics of the style. <ref> [https://www.lmigroupintl.com/pdf/elimar-report]</ref> A strand of red human hair was even found embedded in the canvas and was sent to be analyzed. Despite the fact that it came from a human male, efforts to compare its [[DNA]] to that of Van Gogh's descendants ultimately failed due to its reportedly "degraded state", as stated by LMI. This research has also given experts the ability to date the work, which was in 1889, during Van Gogh's time at the [[Saint-Paul Asylum]] in [[Saint-Rémy-de-Provence|Saint-Rémy]].<ref name=":0" />

The LMI Group later stated that the work (now referred to as 'Elimar', using the inscription in the bottom right corner) was based on a portrait by Michael Ancher, therefore adding to Van Gogh's considerable list of "translations" of other artists' works<ref name=":0" /> (notably [[Paul Gauguin]], [[Émile Bernard]] and [[Jean-François Millet]]). According to research by the LMI Group, the ‘Elimar’ inscription on the Van Gogh painting is a reference by Vincent Van Gogh to a fisherman character in one of Hans Christian Andersen’s books of which Van Gogh was known to have read, and is not the signature of the Danish amateur painter Henning Elimar (based on material science and data, inscription measurements, stylistic and other documented in-congruencies).<ref> [https://www.lmigroupintl.com/pdf/post-release-statement-on-elimar]</ref>