Pakistan, March 28 -- A painting bought for just $50 at a Minnesota garage sale has caused a stir, with some claiming it is a lost Vincent van Gogh masterpiece. The painting, titled Elimar, depicts a fisherman smoking a pipe and was supposedly painted in 1889.

LMI Group International, which bought the painting in 2019, spent $30,000 on a detailed analysis. Their report, which spanned 458 pages, suggested the painting could be worth $15 million. They even found a human hair embedded in the paint, but DNA tests could not confirm its origin.

Despite this investigation, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam dismissed the painting as a fake. The museum reiterated their 2019 opinion, stating that Elimar did not meet the stylistic features of Van G...