Senior researcher Hans Luijten made a surprising discovery: a few years earlier than previously assumed, a painting by Vincent van Gogh was on display in the window of a Dutch art dealer.
Hans Luijten made the discovery when researching the family correspondence from the Van Gogh Museum collection. He published his findings about this presentation in the Van Gogh Museum Article: ‘The first Van Gogh in an Art Shop Window in Amsterdam’.
‘What a lovely painting. I had just been to Buffa in the Kalverstraat the other day to see it in the window.’
Hermine Louise Bonger-Weissman
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Publications
Since 2019, the museum has been working on a series of bilingual digital publications, each of which will make a completed section of this collection publicly accessible.
The first publication in the series is Jo Bonger, Dagboeken – Diaries (2019). The second, scheduled for 2025, will be Isaac Israëls, Brieven aan Jo van Gogh-Bonger – Letters to Jo van Gogh-Bonger. The third instalment, currently being prepared, will publish part of the family correspondence including, in chronological order, all the passages in which family members write about Vincent.
Van Gogh Museum Articles
‘The First Van Gogh in an Art Shop Window in Amsterdam’ is the third in the series Van Gogh Museum Articles, scholarly articles written by researchers and curators working at or associated with the Van Gogh Museum. As a knowledge centre, the Van Gogh Museum conducts research into Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries.