Over 50 works from the Dutch artist come together for this landmark exhibition
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It’s the National Gallery’s bicentennial in 2024, and to celebrate it is putting on “Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers,” its first major exhibition dedicated to the Dutch artist. It is also 100 years since the gallery acquired two of his best-known paintings: “Sunflowers,” 1888, and “Van Gogh’s Chair,” 1888.
Over 50 works, including international loans, explore how Van Gogh used his surroundings in southern France to craft idealized, poetic spaces to express himself, as well as the central role of portraits in his work. He gave his models symbolic identities, such as the poets and lovers of the exhibition’s title.
“This period in southern France was a crucial moment in his career, when his style exploded with color and his paintings began to sing with vibrancy and texture,” says Helena Newman, Sotheby’s executive vice president, chairman, worldwide head of impressionist and modern art, London. “It is a once-in-a-century survey.”
Image: Vincent van Gogh, “Oleanders,” 1888. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Loeb, 1962. Copyright: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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