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The National Gallery presents “Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers”

To mark its 200th anniversary, the National Gallery presents the exhibition “Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers” (14 September 2024 ‒ 19 January 2025)

Source: National Gallery, London · Image: Vincent van Gogh, ‘Starry Night’ (1888, Musée d’Orsay, Paris).

‘Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers’ will explore how the poetic imagination and ideas associated with love evolved into central themes for the artist. In Arles, for example, Van Gogh designated the public park in front of the Yellow House (in which, in 1888, Van Gogh rented four rooms) as a Poets’ Garden, envisioning Italian Renaissance poets Petrarch and Boccaccio strolling there. Some of Van Gogh’s most glorious paintings and drawings of the time are associated with this idea, and pairs of lovers appear in paintings such as ‘Starry Night’ (1888, Musée d’Orsay, Paris).

In May and June of 1889, after Van Gogh was admitted to the Saint-Paul de Mausole hospital in Saint-Rémy, he imagined the asylum’s overgrown garden as a secluded site for lovers. He painted spectacular compositions depicting views of the grounds. The exhibition will show how this idealising, euphoric exploration of the asylum garden contrasts dramatically with works from the autumn when Van Gogh instead associated the very same location with his and his fellow patients’ sufferings.

In Arles, in late summer of 1888, Van Gogh planned to decorate his Yellow House with ‘The Poet’s Garden’, the ‘Sunflowers’, ‘The Poet’ and ‘The Lover’. These paintings were instrumental in his conception of a decorative scheme that quickly grew beyond the  walls of the Yellow House.

‘Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers’ will show how the artist sought to create important compositions for exhibition in Paris, initially in 1889, year of the Exposition Universelle, when he hoped to display them as a cohesive group alongside works by fellow avant-garde artists.

The exhibition will explore how Van Gogh’s choices for these works reflect his thinking about painting in series, his repeated references in letters to pendants, his use of opposites or contrasts to create harmony and cohesion. The artist continued to pursue these ideas later in Saint-Rémy, as his works became increasingly known in avant-garde circles.

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