Archive for December, 2009
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Dec 31, 2009
5 CommentsHappy New Year from the Van Gogh Gallery
Happy New Year and thank you for helping support our site to make 2009 an excellent year! We have had a lot of great feedback from Van Gogh Gallery visitors in the form of blog comments and email messages. We appreciate all of your input on the site and our blog. We are also thrilled...
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Dec 24, 2009
1 CommentHappy Holidays from the Van Gogh Gallery
We would like to thank all of our visitors for supporting the Van Gogh Gallery and wish you the best this holiday season. It seems only fitting that our wishes come from Van Gogh himself, so here are some of his holiday musings and a drawing from a letter he wrote to his brother Theo...
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Dec 16, 2009
No CommentsView of Paris from Van Goghs Eyes
Although Van Gogh preferred the French countryside to the congested streets of Paris, he did live in Paris for a short time with his brother Theo at number 54 Rue Lepic in Montmartre. The art community was active at the time in 1874-75 and the Impressionists, or the grands boulevards artists as they were referred...
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Dec 04, 2009
4 CommentsThe Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters Exhibition
Rarely, since the time that they were created, has a large collection of Van Gogh’s original letters and his corresponding works been seen together. But in January of 2010, the main galleries of Burlington House, the Royal Academy of Arts will be host to an exhibition of over 35 original Van Gogh letters and about...
