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The Van Gogh Museum has for the first time acquired a work by Edgar Degas: the "La lecture après le bain" monotype. A monotype is a print of an ink drawing made on a plate. Degas’ monotypes are rare and they were a hidden treasure, because they never left his studio during his lifetime. "La lecture après le bain" is the first black monotype in any Dutch public art collection. The Mondriaan Fund and the Rembrandt Association have made this acquisition possible.

The art of Impressionist printmaking
The Van Gogh Museum has been collecting prints for decades, following the example of Vincent van Gogh and his brother Theo.

Most of the large museums in the Netherlands had more visitors this year than last year. The Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam especially had many visitors, 2.5 million and 1.6 million respectively. This is according to a survey done by the ANP.

Five museums had a record year: the Rijksmuseum and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, the Spoorwegmuseum (Railway museum) in Utrecht and the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities) in Leiden.

The completely new presentation of the permanent collection of the Van Gogh Museum focuses on the development of Vincent van Gogh. The story of Van Gogh's life and art is the common theme of all floors of the museum; and his paintings, as well as his drawings and letters have now found a permanent place. All the myths surrounding Van Gogh – his suicide, illness and ear– will now be discussed in detail for the first time. More so than before, Van Gogh is presented in the context of his own time. His huge impact on generations after him will also be shown: the museum will demonstrate that Van Gogh has been a source of inspiration until this very day by presenting works on loan that will be regularly changed.

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is one of the most famous artists of all times and he has become an icon, an almost mythical, larger than life figure. This underlying idea is the start through the spectacularly redesigned Van Gogh Museum.

The Van Gogh Museum has is received its millionth visitor for 2014. The lucky visitor, Mrs. van Waveren from Zwaag, received a bouquet of sunflowers an a voucher for ten gallons of decorative paint after entering the museum. 

As compared with recent years, more attendees are stopping by the Amsterdam museum, which is expecting the rate of visitors to keep rising. Last year saw a total of 1.4 million people pass through the museum’s doors.

Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Ministry has initiated a new project to revive the fortunes of the country’s museums and ancient sites by seeking to emulate some of the world’s leading cultural spaces.

The project, “Journey to History to Museums and Ancient Sites,” will take leading art centers such as the British National Gallery, France’s Louvre and the Netherlands’ van Gogh Museum as examples, while organizing various artistic and social events during evening hours.

On April 7, the Fondation Vincent van Gogh opened a gallery in Arles, France, dedicated to continuously displaying the works of Vincent van Gogh. Despite the fact that Arles played a pivotal role in the artist’s personal life and career, the city has only hosted two temporary exhibitions of Van Gogh paintings -- one in 1951 and another in 1989.

The gallery’s inaugural exhibition, “Colours of the North, Colours of the South,” features nine paintings by van Gogh and 21 works by his contemporaries. One of the van Gogh paintings, a self-portrait from 1887, has been loaned to the gallery by Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, which has agreed to assist the Arles endeavor. The exhibition will remain on view through August 31 and the self-portrait will remain on loan until next spring.

The Arles project is being funded by Luc Hoffmann, heir to the Hoffmann-La Roche pharmaceutical company. Hoffmann donated €12m to convert a 15th-century mansion, which previously housed the Hôtel Léautaud de Donines, into the van Gogh gallery. He will also cover operating costs for the next five years. The city of Arles provided the building.

Two versions of Vincent Van Gogh’s venerable ‘Sunflowers’ have been reunited for the first time in 65 years at the National Gallery in London. One painting is in the National Gallery’s collection and the other canvas is on loan from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The works are being exhibited side-by-side along with the results of scientific research into the two paintings carried out by both institutions. The findings allow viewers to better grasp the paintings’ relationship to each other by shedding light on Van Gogh’s artistic process and the materials he used to paint ‘Sunflowers.’

The two paintings on view are among the five versions of ‘Sunflowers’ that are spread around the world (the other three reside in Tokyo, Munich and Philadelphia). Van Gogh started the series in 1888 after he left Paris for Arles in the South of France. Van Gogh had invited his friend Paul Gauguin to join him in Arles and he painted ‘Sunflowers’ as a welcoming present for the artist. Van Gogh and Gauguin worked together throughout the fall of 1888 until Van Gogh’s mental state began to deteriorate.

‘Sunflowers’ will be on view at the National Gallery through April 27, 2014. Admission is free.

Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum is partnering with Fujifilm Belgium to debut museum certified editions of Vincent Van Gogh masterpieces. Collectively known as the Van Gogh Museum Edition, the collection includes ‘Almond Blossoms’ (1890), ‘Boulevard de Clichy’ (1887), ‘The Harvest’ (1888), ‘Sunflowers’ (1889) and ‘Wheatfield under Thunderclouds’ (1890). The works will debut at the LA Art Show on January 15, 2014 as part of Tribute International’s booth.

Visitors will preview the most advanced technique used to replicate Van Gogh’s art in full three-dimensional detail. Developed by Fujifilm Belgium, Reliefography combines a precise three-dimensional edition of the painting’s actual surface texture with a high-resolution print. Each Van Gogh piece has been produced as a limited edition of 260. The starting price for each piece in the edition is $35,000.

The Van Gogh Museum will keep 50 pieces from each edition to be used for educational purposes and potentially to provide a new way for visually impaired people to experience art.

Sunset at Montmajour, a recently discovered painting by Vincent van Gogh, is officially on public view at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Axel Ruger, the museum’s director, said, “We are pleased to be able to show this exceptional painting to our visitors, because a new discovery of this magnitude has never before occurred in the history of the Van Gogh Museum.” The work will be on view through January 12, 2014 as part of the exhibition Van Gogh at Work, which shows how in ten years’ time van Gogh developed into a unique artist with an impressive oeuvre.

On September 9, 2013 officials at the Van Gogh Museum announced that after extensive research, they were confident that Sunset at Montmajour was an authentic work by van Gogh. The canvas, which depicts a dry landscape in Van Gogh’s characteristically thick brushstrokes, had been stored for decades in the attic of a Norwegian home before becoming a research subject at the Van Gogh Museum. Scholars were able to trace the earliest history of the provenance of the painting while Oda Van Maanen, the museum’s restorer, used x-ray photos and computer analyses to determine the type of canvas and pigments used, which were consistent with the materials regularly used by Van Gogh. Museum officials had previously deemed Sunset at Montmajour as inauthentic because the artist had not signed it.

Along with Sunset at Montmajour, Van Gogh at Work includes some of the artist’s best-known works including Sunflowers and The Bedroom.

On Monday, September 9, 2013, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam announced that after extensive research, they were confident that the painting Sunset at Montmajour was an authentic work by Vincent Van Gogh. Alex Ruger, the museum’s director, said, “A discovery of this magnitude has never before occurred in the history of the Van Gogh Museum. It is already a rarity that a new painting can be added to Van Gogh’s oeuvre. But what makes this even more exceptional is that this is a transition work in his oeuvre, and moreover, a large painting from a period that is considered by many to be the culmination of his artistic achievement, his period in Arles in south of France.” Sunset at Montmajour was painted in 1888 around the same time as Van Gogh’s seminal works Sunflowers, The Yellow House and The Bedroom.

The canvas, which depicts a dry landscape in Van Gogh’s characteristically thick brushstrokes, had been stored for decades in the attic of a Norwegian home before becoming a research subject at the Van Gogh Museum. Scholars were able to trace the earliest history of the provenance of the painting while Oda Van Maanen, the museum’s restorer, used x-ray photos and computer analyses to determine the type of canvas and pigments used, which were consistent with the materials regularly used by Van Gogh. Museum officials had previously deemed Sunset at Montmajour as inauthentic because the artist had not signed it.

Sunset at Montmajour will be on view at the Van Gogh Museum starting September 24, 2013 as part of the exhibition Van Gogh at Work.