We recently received a request for more information about Van Gogh’s painting La Mousmé, Sitting and the specifically the meaning of La Mousmé in English. According to The National Gallery of Art website, La Mousmé “came from a character in a popular novel set in Japan. ‘A mousmé is a Japanese girl-Provençal in this case-twelve…
We have had several inquiries recently about the paintings described in the first stanza of Don McLean’s hit song “Vincent.” The Van Gogh Gallery has a Starry, Starry Night page that breaks down the lyrics and names paintings that are referenced in the song. However, we have not broken down the song line by line and associated…
If you are in Amsterdam, or visiting other areas of The Netherlands this summer, you may want to take the train down to Zundert to see The Vincent van GoghHuis. The Vincent van GoghHuis Zundert will open on August 29, 2008 with a permanent exhibition “Vincent van Gogh: Roots of a Master” which covers the life of Van…
