The Art Newspaper: Massive Van Gogh show opens in Italy
The largest Van Gogh exhibition in Europe and America since the centenary of the artist’s death in 1990 opens in the northern Italian city of Vicenza on 7 October. Entitled Van Gogh: Between Wheat and Sky, it includes 124 works (86 drawings and 38 paintings) from the artist’s full career.
The Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, in the Netherlands, is the major lender, providing 113 works by Van Goghs in return for a substantial (and undisclosed) fee. A museum spokesman says the money will go into its general funds. Other lenders, most providing a single work by Van Gogh, include Edinburgh’s National Gallery of Scotland and Cologne’s Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud.