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Posted on: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 – 6:24 PM | Last update: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 – 6:24 PM
After more than 130 years, all the olive groves by Dutch painter and artist Vincent van Gogh are being shown together in one exhibition for the first time. There are 15 plates.
“This is something unique,” Emily Gordenker, director of the Van Gogh Museum, in Amsterdam said on Wednesday. “These wonderful paintings show Gogh’s love for nature and his belief in consolation through art.”
The painter himself considered these works among the best and most important of his time in southern France.
The Dutch painter (1853-1890) painted olive groves during his stay in the psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in 1889. He suffered from depression and likely suffered from acute psychosis.
The first to acquire paintings of olive groves was his brother Theo, following the painter’s death.
The paintings will be displayed in Amsterdam from March 11 to June 12.
