Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow on the Philadelphia Artwork Museum (6 June-11 October) will likely be prime of the invoice of exhibitions on the artist in 2026. The Arles Sunflower work are very hardly ever lent, however London’s Nationwide Gallery is to mortgage its model with a yellow background, which will likely be proven with Philadelphia’s image with a turquoise background. A number of weeks in the past we broke the information of this blockbuster present.
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers from London’s Nationwide Gallery (August 1888) and the Philadelphia Artwork Museum (January 1889)
Nationwide Gallery, London and Philadelphia Artwork Museum
In the meantime, Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum will likely be presenting an exhibition dedicated to yellow pigment. Yellow: Past Van Gogh’s Color (13 February-17 Could) will present the work of 15 artists, however in fact it can revolve across the Sunflowers (with ten different Van Goghs). The Amsterdam museum has a barely later model (January 1889) of the London authentic.
The opposite nice Van Gogh assortment can also be within the Netherlands, on the Kröller-Müller Museum, set in a nationwide park within the east of the nation. It usually loans a considerable group of its Van Goghs to East Asian museums, and plenty of at the moment are in Japan (see under). Often the Kröller-Müller reveals round 35 Van Gogh work in its personal museum, however later this 12 months it can current all its 88 photos, for the primary time since 1984. Van Gogh, All Our Work runs from 15 September to three January 2027.
A part of the Kröller-Müller Museum’s Van Gogh assortment in a latest show
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo ({photograph} Marjon Gemmeke)
At one other Dutch venue, the Noordbrabants Museum in Den Bosch will likely be displaying works by the town’s main Twentieth-century artist, Jan Sluijters, who was strongly influenced by Van Gogh. Jan and Vincent: About Gentle runs from 18 October to 21 February 2027.
Guests in Japan can even be well-served by Van Gogh exhibitions, since each the Kröller-Müller Museum and the Van Gogh Museum are at the moment touring teams of works to Japanese museums. The Van Gogh Museum’s work have simply arrived at their last exhibition cease, Nagoya’s Aichi Prefectural Museum of Artwork (till 23 March 2026), within the exhibition Van Gogh’s Dwelling: The Van Gogh Museum.
Van Gogh’s Self-portrait as an Artist (December 1887-February 1888, Van Gogh Museum) and Self-portrait (April-June 1887, Kröller-Müller Museum), now in two separate exhibitions in Japan, in Ngoya and Kobe
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Basis) and Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
The Kröller-Müller’s The Grand Van Gogh Exhibition is now at its opening venue, Kobe Metropolis Museum (till 1 February). It’ll then tour to the Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Artwork (21 February-10 Could) and Tokyo’s Ueno Royal Museum (29 Could-12 August).
In the meantime two modest exhibitions in Europe are each in historic buildings linked to the artist. The Van Gogh Home in Zundert, the artist’s birthplace, is marking the one hundred and fortieth anniversary of the artist’s temporary keep in close by Antwerp. It’s displaying up to date works impressed by the grasp (however no authentic Van Goghs), in Van Gogh in Antwerp (till 1 March).
On the Maison du Dr Gachet in Auvers-sur-Oise, the home of the physician who cared for Van Gogh in his final weeks, will likely be exhibiting work by Dr Paul Gachet and his son. The pair signed their artworks with the pseudonym Van Ryssel. Paul and Louis van Ryssel: Forgotten Masterpieces (working title) will run from 18 April to 31 July. The photographs are all on mortgage from a French non-public collector. Additionally in Auvers, the Maison de Van Gogh (the inn the place the artist stayed) will reopen to guests for the season on 4 March.
Dr Paul Gachet (1903) painted by his son (who signed his work Louis van Ryssel)
Personal assortment, France ({photograph} ©arthénon)
The Basis Vincent Gogh Arles is presenting an exhibition impressed by the artist’s letters, with up to date works. Entitled To Vincent: A Winter’s Story, it runs till 26 April and consists of two Van Gogh work: Head of a Lady (December 1885) and Sunflowers gone to Seed (August-September 1887).
Van Gogh’s Head of a Lady (December 1885)
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Basis)
A British angle
And a last be aware about 2026. It marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Van Gogh’s two temporary stays in England, within the village of Isleworth in west London and the port of Ramsgate in Kent. Then aged 23, he was working as a junior trainer in small non-public faculties. Quickly after his arrival in Ramsgate Vincent wrote to his brother Theo that “giving the teachings isn’t so tough, but it surely’ll be harder to make the boys be taught them”. In his free time, he often made little sketches.
Van Gogh’s drawing of View of Royal Street, Ramsgate (Could 1876)
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Basis)
Van Gogh discovered instructing difficult, quickly feeling that his abilities lay elsewhere. At Christmas 1876 he returned to the Netherlands, by no means to return to England.
Martin Bailey is a number one Van Gogh specialist and particular correspondent for The Artwork Newspaper. He has curated exhibitions on the Barbican Artwork Gallery, Compton Verney/Nationwide Gallery of Scotland and Tate Britain.
Martin Bailey’s latest Van Gogh books
Martin has written numerous bestselling books on Van Gogh’s years in France: The Sunflowers Are Mine: The Story of Van Gogh’s Masterpiece (Frances Lincoln 2013, UK and US), Studio of the South: Van Gogh in Provence (Frances Lincoln 2016, UK and US), Starry Evening: Van Gogh on the Asylum (White Lion Publishing 2018, UK and US) and Van Gogh’s Finale: Auvers and the Artist’s Rise to Fame (Frances Lincoln 2021, UK and US). The Sunflowers are Mine (2024, UK and US) and Van Gogh’s Finale (2024, UK and US) are additionally now obtainable in a extra compact paperback format.
His different latest books embody Dwelling with Vincent van Gogh: The Houses & Landscapes that formed the Artist (White Lion Publishing 2019, UK and US), which offers an summary of the artist’s life. The Illustrated Provence Letters of Van Gogh has been reissued (Batsford 2021, UK and US). My Good friend Van Gogh/Emile Bernard offers the primary English translation of Bernard’s writings on Van Gogh (David Zwirner Books 2023, UKand US).
To contact Martin Bailey, please e mail vangogh@theartnewspaper.com
Please be aware that he doesn’t undertake authentications.
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