Two Wrestlers

Vincent van Gogh NeoMasters™

Background

bVincent van Gogh’s ‘Still Life with Meadow Flowers and Roses’ (1886) is currently held in the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, but hidden beneath the painting is the figure of two wrestlers locked in combat.

‘This week I painted a large thing with two nude torsos — two wrestlers […] and I really like doing that’ — Vincent, letter to his brother Theo, January 1886.

The motif is thought to have been painted by van Gogh whilst he was at the Antwerp Academy, and together with the documented reference of the painting in Vincent’s letters, the painting has been verified as an authentic van Gogh.

Method

Using a processed x-ray fluorescence image and a two step process involving a conditional GAN model and Neural Style Transfer, we’ve reconstructed the lost masterpiece: Vincent van Gogh’s 1886 ‘Two Wrestlers’.

Specifications

Exhibitions:

  1. Focus Art Fair, the Louvre, Paris, 2022.

  2. Foster + Partners, London, 2023.

  3. Deeep AI Art Fair, Paris, 2024.

Press: Telegraph, The Times, Independent, Daily Mail, Itv

Dimensions: 100cm x 80cm x 3 cm. 

Medium: 3D print on canvas.

Price: $15,000.