The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York revealed it can maintain a landmark exhibition of works by Vincent van Gogh subsequent yr centered on the sinuous cypresses that dominated the Dutch artist’s compositions within the final years of his life within the South of France, from his first sightings of them at Arles to works he made on the asylum at Saint Rémy.
The foremost exhibition—which can be on view from 22 Might till 27 August 2023—is one in all a number of reveals worldwide commemorating the a hundred and seventieth anniversary of Van Gogh’s delivery subsequent yr, however the first ever to intently look at the distinctive timber that turned emblematic motifs of his work.
The cypresses are the “most well-known timber in artwork historical past”, which Van Gogh captured with “fierce energy and expression, portray them in such a definite method”, the Met’s director Max Hollein mentioned in a press convention at the moment (6 December).
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Evening (June 1889). © The Museum of Fashionable Artwork / Licensed by SCALA / Artwork Useful resource, NY.
The present will embrace round 40 work and rarely-seen drawings and illustrated letters, most of which have by no means traveled exterior of their respective collections or which have by no means been exhibited collectively. It reunites two masterworks for the primary time since 1901, when the work had been posthumously displayed on the Galerie Bernheim Jeune in Paris: the seminal Wheat Subject with Cypresses from the Met’s assortment, which can not go away the premises because of the phrases of its acquisition, and the Museum of Fashionable Artwork’s The Starry Evening (each June 1889).
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield, with Cypresses (September 1889). © The Nationwide Gallery, London.
Another important works to be featured embrace A Wheatfield, with Cypresses (September 1889) from the Nationwide Gallery in London, Nation Street in Provence by Evening (Might 1890) from the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, and works from the Artwork Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
“Van Gogh’s cypresses have lengthy captivated our consideration and awe, [and] few motifs would develop into extra attribute of his work and take larger maintain of his creativeness,” mentioned Susan Alyson Stein, the Met’s curator of nineteenth century European work. “The vitality and relationship between the works can be launched with fascinating new particulars from technical research.”
- Van Gogh’s Cypresses, 22 Might-27 August 2023, the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, New York
