Van Gogh at the MoMA
Penguin June 13th, 2008
Now, after studying some 45 works by van Gogh that are linked to the painting and scores of letters and drawings from the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Mr. Pissarro has ended up with something far bigger than he had envisioned: a sweeping show charting the artist’s obsession with the nocturnal world.
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Van Gogh would often hand-copy pages from novels he was reading that referred to both the physical and mystical aspects of the night. “As an imaginative force the night was a very big catalyst in his mind,” Mr. Pissarro said. “He lived his life by the night.”- NYT
The show runs from Sept. 21 to Jan. 5 at the Museum of Modern Art
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