Kicker - Surprised by a self-portrait

NICK EICHER, HOST: Art experts recently discovered an unknown portrait by Vincent Van Gogh not too far from a known painting.

Professor Frances Fowle at the National Galleries of Scotland told Sky News they were examining a work by Van Gogh when they found something else.

FOWLE: On the reverse, hidden by a sheet of cardboard.

…a self-portrait by Van Gogh himself.

You see, he sometimes turned canvases around and made use of the other side. Canvases were expensive, after all!

The self-portrait is believed to have been hidden for over a century, and experts believe it was an early one.

You may wonder how they know this.

One really important clue: In the painting, Van Gogh has an intact left ear. He was 35 when he famously cut off the lower part of it misusing a razor.

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