VAN GOGH’S GREATEST WORKS. CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH.

Vincent Van Gogh is one of the world’s most celebrated artists – in his brief career, he produced some of the most famous paintings in history. Now, brought to you by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, a select few Van Gogh Museum Editions are coming to Southgate Centre, bringing the experience of Van Gogh’s visionary works closer than ever.

VAN GOGH

Vincent Van Gogh (1857-1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter who exerted enormous influence on western art. Although he only began painting in his mid-twenties, Van Gogh was prolific in his later life, and produced more than 2,100 artworks in a single decade. His paintings are characterized by vivid colours and an unmatched intensity of emotion. Together with his now-legendary letters, they make up a body of work that has had an immense impact on our painting tradition.

IN 1882, EIGHT YEARS BEFORE HIS DEATH, VINCENT WROTE A PRESCIENT LETTER TO HIS BROTHER THEO, SUGGESTING THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIS PAINTINGS MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PEOPLE.

“What I wrote to you in my last letter about a plan for making prints for the people is something to which I hope you’ll give some thought one day. I don’t have a fixed plan about this myself as yet... But I don’t doubt the possibility of doing something like this, nor its usefulness. Nor can I doubt that people can be found whose heart would be in it. In short, I believe it could be done in such a way that no one would regret having taken part.”

With a handshake,