Rare Van Gogh painting leaves US for first time since 1935, for London exhibition

(11 Sep 2024)
UK VAN GOGH EXHIBITION

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

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ASSOCIATE PRESS
London, UK - 11 September 2024

1. Wide showing three Van Gogh paintings. Left: Sunflowers, 1888. Centre: Lullaby: Madame Augustine Roulin Rocking a Cradle (La Berceuse), 1889. Right: Sunflowers, 1889
2. Mid of Sunflowers, 1889
3. Close tilt of flower details on Sunflowers, 1889
4. Wide of Sunflowers, 1889
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Cornelia Homburg, Curator of Van Gogh Exhibition at National Gallery:
"This is actually the first Van Gogh exhibition that takes place at the National Gallery in London, which is quite extraordinary, especially considering the history it has. It is also a moment when there are extraordinary works of art that have never left its museum's walls: the Sunflowers from Philadelphia, the interior courtyard of the hospital in Arles is a work that has never been shown outside of its museum. And there are several others like that that make this exhibition quite extraordinary in the works that you can see here.

6. Tilt of Sunflowers, 1889 painting
7. Wide pan showing Sunflowers, 1888 and other Vincent van Gogh paintings
8. Various of Sunflowers, 1888 painting
9. Various of Lullaby: Madame Augustine Roulin Rocking a Cradle (La Berceuse), 1889 painting
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Cornelia Homburg, Curator of Van Gogh Exhibition at National Gallery:
"When Van Gogh made these pictures, there were not simply representations of sunflowers or representation of a woman or a mother, but he wanted to give them a sense of meaning that goes beyond nature. So, the sunflowers were associated with gratitude, with emotions, with summer, with the flower itself, having a long history of different types of meaning. And 'La Berceuse' was intended not as a representation of the woman who was his model, Madame Roulin, but she became sort of the embodiment of motherhood, but also with associations of giving comfort in consoling, protecting."

11. Various of people visiting the exhibition
12. Mid of The Yellow House (The Street), 1888
13. Close tilt of The Yellow House (The Street), 1888
14. Various of Starry Night over the Rhone, 1888
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Cornelia Homburg, Curator of Van Gogh Exhibition at National Gallery:
"The exhibition focuses exclusively on the time Van Gogh spent in the south of France, which was a moment in which he not only created his greatest works of art, but also for him a very, very essential time in which he intended to craft his oeuvre, to develop his identity as a modern artist, and also to create position for him among the avant-garde that he knew from Paris."

16. Various of The Public Garden, Arles, 1888
17. Various of art critic Estelle Lovatt inspecting van Gogh's painting: The Arlésienne, 1890
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Estelle Lovatt, art critic:
"This is such an extraordinary, unique experience both for the gallery but for the visitors as well. I mean, I've never before felt my heart beating as much as I have walking around this. I don't feel like I'm just looking at a Van Gogh painting. I feel as though I'm looking into Van Gogh's soul and that at the same time he's looking back at me. It's quite amazing. It's so unusual."

19. Various of painting, Chair, 1888
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Estelle Lovatt, art critic:

21. Various of Van Gogh exhibition entrance in National Gallery

LEADIN:

A rare Van Gogh painting has left the United States for the first time in nearly 90 years.


STORYLINE:

These three paintings have never been exhibited together in a gallery before, until now.















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