Celebrating 200 years of National Gallery London
Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers Exhibition Talk
Largely unknown at the time of his death, but today regarded as one of the greatest Dutch painters of all time, Vincent van Gogh was more than just colourful landscapes.
After moving to Arles in early 1888, he experienced a certain poetic revelation, culminating in countless of daring and ambitious paintings, including (self) portraits, landscapes and drawings.
The upcoming exhibition, Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers at the National Gallery, London, will aim to shed a light on Van Gogh’s creative process and the symbolic meaning of his oeuvre. The exhibition will focus specifically on his 2 years in Arles and Saint-Rémy, bringing together a vast number of poetic masterpieces, including some rarely seen in public.
The talk will be held by Sterre Overmars, the Weinrebe Curatorial Fellow for Post-1800 Paintings at the National Gallery, and assistant to head curators Christopher Riopelle and Cornelia Homburg on the Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers exhibition.
Sterre’s research for the catalogue has been specifically centred around the many letters Van Gogh had sent to his ‘Pals in Paris’ while residing in the South of France. Along with diving deeper into the paintings in the exhibition, Sterre will discuss Van Gogh’s literary and poetic interpretations, which have led to the many masterpieces of his Arles and Saint-Rémy period.