The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York revealed it should maintain a landmark exhibition of works by Vincent van Gogh subsequent yr targeted 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 most important exhibition—which can be on view from 22 Might till 27 August 2023—is one among a number of reveals worldwide commemorating the one hundred and seventieth anniversary of Van Gogh’s beginning subsequent yr, however the first ever to carefully look at the distinctive bushes that grew to become emblematic motifs of his work.
The cypresses are the “most well-known bushes 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 immediately (6 December).
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Evening (June 1889). © The Museum of Trendy 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 outdoors 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 have been posthumously displayed on the Galerie Bernheim Jeune in Paris: the seminal Wheat Area with Cypresses from the Met’s assortment, which is simply too fragile to depart the premises, and the Museum of Trendy 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 Highway 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 turn into extra attribute of his work and take higher maintain of his creativeness,” mentioned Susan Alyson Stein, the Met’s curator of nineteenth century European work. “The power 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
