Vincent van Gogh
Bedroom in Arles (first version)
October 1888.
Oil on canvas, 72 x 90 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Van Gogh Museum reopens with ‘Van Gogh at work’ The anniversary exhibition Van Gogh at work, with which the renovated Van Gogh Museum reopens on 1 May 2013, shows how in ten years’ time Van Gogh developed into a unique artist with an impressive oeuvre.
From 1 May 2013 to 12 January 2014
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Source: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
This unique exhibition is based on an ambitious large-scale research programme carried out by the Van Gogh Museum, its Partner in Science Shell Nederland, and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE). The exhibition, which marks the close of eight years of research into Van Gogh’s working methods, illustrates the painter’s development with 200 works of art by Van Gogh and his contemporaries. Microscopes and paint samples help visitors to discover how he worked and mastered new skills. Many masterpieces from the museum’s own collection by Van Gogh and his contemporaries, along with exceptional art works on loan, form unique combinations and shed light on Van Gogh’s fascinating career.
In “Van Gogh at work”, visitors will look over Van Gogh’s shoulder, as it were, discovering how the painter lived and worked. The exhibition include some 200 works of art, including 150 paintings, works on paper, letters and personal effects of the painter, such as his original sketchbooks, paint tubes and only surviving palette, from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.
Visitors can trace Van Gogh’s development with the aid of numerous masterpieces from the museum’s own collection, in unforgettable combinations with unique loans. For example, the Sunflowers from the National Gallery in London will hang next to the Sunflowers from the Van Gogh Museum and The bedroom from the Art Institute of Chicago is on display beside the museum’s version. Another exceptional sight is the “Portrait of Père Tanguy”, on loan from the Musée Rodin in Paris. This painting was last exhibited in the Netherlands in 1930 and will probably no longer be sent out on loan after this exhibition, because of its fragile state. A rich assortment of works by Van Gogh’s contemporaries will also be on show. Pieces from the museum collection will hang side by side with unique works on loan by Monet, Gauguin, Seurat and Bernard that Van Gogh himself once saw.
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