VAN GOGH AND GAUGUIN:
AN ARTISTIC DIALOGUE IN THE SOUTH
March 26-June 13, 2004
Self Portrait, 1889, by Vincent van
Gogh; oil on canvas; 22½ by 17¼;
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay
Whitney. (Image © 2003 Board of
Trustees, National Gallery of Art,
Washington)
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In conjunction with the loan exhibition Bonjour Monsieur Courbet!: The Bruyas
Collection from the Musée Fabre, Montpellier, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has organized an exhibition that focuses on the intense intellectual and artistic exchange
between Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin around the time of their visit to the
Bruyas collection in December 1888.
Van Gogh and Gauguin worked together in the
south of France for a few months in the fall of 1888, as part of van Gogh’s long-held
dream to establish a studio in which painters could collaborate and find inspiration.
This focused exhibition will bring together paintings by the two artistic masters
reflecting the impact they had on each other’s art during and after their experiment in
Arles.
The exploration of this critical episode in the careers of van Gogh and Gauguin provides a fascinating counterpart to the exhibition of the Bruyas collection. Many of
the paintings from Montpellier that sparked heated discussions and disagreements
between the two artists are shown in the
exhibition Bonjour Monsieur Courbet!
Presented by Wachovia
Underwritten by The Julia Louise Reynolds Fund
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