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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Van Gogh Museum
Alfred Stevens
Dates: 18 Sep 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: Paulus Potterstraat 7 Amsterdam 1070 CX
Tel: +31 (0)20 570 5200 Website
Van Gogh’s Letters: the Artist Speaks
Dates: 9 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: Paulus Potterstraat 7 Amsterdam 1070 CX
Tel: +31 (0)20 570 5200 Website
This exhibition celebrates the publication of definitive, six-volume edition of the artist’s correspondence (see p49). The Van Gogh Museum is marking the book launch by showing 120 letters, nearly all from the family collection. These are rarely exhibited, for conservation reasons, and never have so many been on show before. Three recently acquired letters with sketches addressed to Van Gogh’s artist friend Emile Bernard are being lent by the Morgan Library in New York.
Presented in the museum’s original Rietveld building, the letters are shown alongside paintings from the permanent collection. Altogether there are 340 artworks, including The Potato Eaters and The Bedroom. Light levels will be lowered for the works on paper, with the paintings spotlit, giving a different feel to a museum that is normally filled with daylight. The display of letters will also flow over into the print gallery.
Some of the letters include small drawings (above). Once Van Gogh became a full-time artist he would make rough sketches of his pictures to show his brother Theo what he was working on. The letters, mostly in Dutch and French, provide an intimate and revealing account of his development as an artist.
Another show (with almost completely different artworks) will be presented at the Royal Academy, London (“The Real Van Gogh: the Artist and his Letters”), from 23 January-
18 April 2010. Martin Bailey
Cleveland, USA
Cleveland Museum of Art
Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889
Dates: 4 Oct 09 - 18 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: 11150 East Boulevard Cleveland 44106-1797
Tel: +1 216 421 7340 Website
A survey of symbolist artist Paul Gauguin opens at the Cleveland Museum of Art before it travels to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam next year. The show partially recreates the exhibition that Gauguin and his contemporaries independently organised in the Café Volpini, Paris, during the Exposition Universelle, or World’s Fair. Around 75 works from that show are reunited for the first time in more than a century, along with works on paper, woodcarvings and ceramics.
Cologne, Germany
Wallraf-Richartz Museum
Vincent Van Gogh
Dates: 18 Sep 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: Bischofgartenstraße 1 Cologne D-50667
Tel: +49 (0)221 221 2372 Website
London, United Kingdom
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Drawing Attention: Rembrandt, Tiepolo, Van Gogh, Picasso and More
Dates: 21 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Modern (1900-1945)
Old Master
Address: Gallery Road London SE21 7AD
Tel: +44 (0)20 8693 5254 Website
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