![]() ![]() Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, including The Bedroom at Arles (1889), are also showcased alongside paintings from the Phillips’s permanent collection by artists van Gogh admired, including Gauguin, Honoré Daumier, and Rembrandt van Rijn, to create a richer, more meaningful picture of his personal life and artistic production. The exhibition brings together portraits and landscapes from some of the world’s most renowned collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Philadelphia Museum of Art The Art Institute of Chicago Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Created in significant locales in the Netherlands and in France, including Paris, Arles, Saint-Rémy, and Auvers, the works in the exhibition reveal the vitality and persistence of this method across van Gogh’s career. The exhibition also highlights the artist’s practice of repeating work by other artists, including Paul Gauguin. Changes among repetitions are also explored in van Gogh’s series of portraits of his friend Joseph Roulin and Roulin’s family. The exhibition reunites the two masterpieces-never before seen together in Washington-and invites deep, focused study of the similarities and differences between them, revealing some surprising facts about van Gogh’s process and motivation. Van Gogh Repetitions is inspired by The Road Menders (1889) in The Phillips Collection and a painting of the same subject, The Large Plane Trees (1889), in The Cleveland Museum of Art. Back in the studio, he would repeat the subject, reworking and refining his idea on a fresh canvas, in some cases many times, to extract the essence of a motif. He often began by sketching a person or landscape rapidly from life. The first exhibition in Phillips Collection history devoted to the artist, Van Gogh Repetitions goes beneath the surface of some of his best-known paintings to examine how and why he repeated certain compositions during his 10-year career, inviting viewers to look more closely than ever before at van Gogh’s celebrated works.įeaturing 35 paintings and works on paper and examples of 13 repetitions, the exhibition is the first to focus on van Gogh’s “repetitions”-a term the artist used to describe his practice of creating more than one version of a particular subject. While recognized for the intensity and speed with which he painted, the artist could also work with careful deliberation, creating numerous versions of some of his most famous subjects. Advance reservations are strongly recommended.Van Gogh Repetitions takes a fresh look at the artistic process of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). Tickets may be purchased by phone at 21, in person, or online. The exhibition is free for museum members. The exhibition curators and conservators are working closely together to investigate the various means Van Gogh employed to produce repetitions.Īdult tickets for Van Gogh Repetitions are $15 each. It is known that he used a perspective frame to compose some paintings, a squaring technique to enlarge painted compositions and Buhot paper to transfer some drawings to lithographic stone. Originally inspired by the study of the close relationship between The Cleveland Museum of Art’s The Large Plane Trees and The Phillips Collection’s The Road Menders, both dating from late 1889, this exhibition seeks to explore, clarify and build on that research by bringing together other works that shed light on Van Gogh's practice of producing repetitions.Ĭurrently, there is considerable debate even among experts over how Van Gogh produced his repetitions. As the first exhibition to focus specifically on pairs or groups of works by Van Gogh that feature nearly identical compositions, this project seeks to make a valuable contribution to Van Gogh scholarship and to give broad audiences a new understanding of a fascinating aspect of the artist’s work. The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Phillips Collection have joined together to develop a ground-breaking exhibition that will present new insights into the art of Vincent van Gogh through a study of his répétitions- a term the artist used to describe a distinctive genre of works in his oeuvre. ![]()
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