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Van Gogh Repetitions
Tags for: Van Gogh Repetitions
- Special Exhibition
Sunday, March 2–Sunday, June 1, 2014
Location: 004 Special Exhibition Gallery
The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Gallery
The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Gallery
Composite details of five paintings from The Postman series.
Featured Art
About The Exhibition
The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Phillips Collection have joined together to develop a ground-breaking exhibition that will present new insights into the art of Vincent van Gogh through a study of his répétitions—a term the artist used to describe a distinctive genre of works in his oeuvre. As the first exhibition to focus specifically on pairs or groups of works by Van Gogh that feature nearly identical compositions, this project seeks to make a valuable contribution to Van Gogh scholarship and to give broad audiences a new understanding of a fascinating aspect of the artist’s work. Originally inspired by the study of the close relationship between The Cleveland Museum of Art’s The Large Plane Trees and The Phillips Collection’s The Road Menders, both dating from late 1889, this exhibition seeks to explore, clarify and build on that research by bringing together other works that shed light on Van Gogh's practice of producing repetitions.
Currently, there is considerable debate even among experts over how Van Gogh produced his repetitions. It is known that he used a perspective frame to compose some paintings, a squaring technique to enlarge painted compositions and Buhot paper to transfer some drawings to lithographic stone. The exhibition curators and conservators are working closely together to investigate the various means Van Gogh employed to produce repetitions.
Sponsors
Van Gogh Repetitions is co-organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and The Phillips Collection and features exceptional loans from the Musée d'Orsay.
This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities and is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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