Van Gogh in Auvers. His Final Months explored the last months of Vincent van Gogh’s life, which he spent in the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890. The exhibition was a collaboration between the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (12 May to 3 September 2023) and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris (3 October to 4 February 2024).
Study Day
The Study Day gave a team of international Van Gogh experts, curators and conservators the opportunity to come together to study Van Gogh’s paintings and drawings in detail. The exhibition is the result of years of research into the final period of Van Gogh’s life, and a once-in-a-lifetime chance for these experts to see more than 40 paintings and 30 drawings and sketches by Vincent van Gogh that have never before been exhibited together.
In the first part of the Study Day, the Van Gogh Museum research team gave a presentation introducing the type of art-historical and technical research that was conducted, and how the chronology of the works was established for this last, very productive period of the artist’s life.
For the second part of the Study Day, the participants moved to the museum’s galleries, where specific paintings and drawings were observed and discussed in great detail, presenting new insights and raising new questions for future research.