In a Jan. 28 news release, LMI Group International announced the publication of a 450-page report on a painting called "Elimar," which it believes is a van Gogh original. The painting was bought ...

The New York-based art research company, LMI International, has bought and analyzed another painting in a bid to prove its doubters wrong.

Elimar was bought by the New York-based art research firm, LMI Group International, for an undisclosed sum in 2019. While the painting has not been authenticated by the Van Gogh Museum ...

“The so-called Van Gogh painting of a fisherman is a farce,” he wrote on X, attributing the work instead to Henning Elimar. “Somehow, a team of 20 so-called experts, backed by a $30,000 ...

But for me, the evidence linking Elimar to Van Gogh is unconvincing. The future of Elimar remains unclear, although the emergence of the painting has certainly attracted global media attention.

“The discovery of a previously unknown van Gogh painting should come ... an antiques collector in 2016, the painting bears an inscription of the word “Elimar” in the bottom right corner.

With me to opine is Kate Brown, Artnet’s senior editor and co-host of this Art Angle, calling from Berlin, and Annie ...