Vincent Van Gogh is my favorite artists of all time, so I was pretty excited to see that one of the Dutch painter’s long-lost works was recently unveiled after spending decades in storage in a private collector’s attic after the owner was told it was a fake. (Usually, all we hear about is how Van Gogh paintings are stolen and then found and then stolen, etc.)
Titled “Sunset at Montmajour,” the recently authenticated painting was unveiled this week to the media by Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, who believe Van Gogh painted it in Arles in southern France in the Summer of 1888, around the same time as some of the 19th century Impressionist’s famous works, like “Sunflowers” and “The Bedroom.”
If you look at the blue building in the distance on the far left in this landscape painting, you’ll notice it looks pretty familiar, doesn’t it? As our pal Amy Ratcliffe over at Nerd Approved pointed out — as well as lots of fans on Twitter — this edifice looks a lot like the TARDIS from Doctor Who!
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