It is said that a lost Vincent Van Gogh painting has recently appeared. The excitement 【小题1】 (cause) by the news proved again that more than 130 years after he died, people’s 【小题2】 (fascinate) with and appetite for anything to do with the Dutch artist remains as strong as ever.

【小题3】 picture has to be proved by the Van Gogh Museum in the Dutch capital Amsterdam. According to the museum website, the news 【小题4】 he only sold one painting in his lifetime, before his 【小题5】 (die) at the age of 37, is untrue, but his popularity and the price of his works 【小题6】 (increase) sharply in the recent years.

The museum has the world’s biggest Van Gogh collection, with more than 200 paintings, 500 drawings and 700 letters, because of his brother Theo. And the content of these letters has added hugely 【小题7】 the understanding of his life and art.

According to The New York Times, 85 percent of museum visitors are from overseas and the number of the visitors from China【小题8】 (be) the hugest. The 2016 documentary China’s Van Goghs, 【小题9】 is about the artists of Dafen village in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, showed the country’s interest in copies of his works. And its desire 【小题10】 (engage) with the real thing has forced the museum to make great efforts to cater for Chinese art lovers.