A
pencil drawing of a broken old man, head in hands looking utterly
exhausted, has been identified as a work by Vincent van Gogh. The Van
Gogh Museum in Amsterdam said on Thursday that it had authenticated the
drawing as being the work of the man himself. Teio Meedendorp, a senior
researcher at the museum, said it was a “spectacular” discovery shining
light on Van Gogh’s early career as an artist living in The Hague, a
time less well known than his years in Paris or the south of France read more
