Description Covid information : a health pass or a test taken within the last 48 hours is required at the entrance. In the intimacy of the painters As you wander around the house, you will notice many remarkably preserved objects from the era , including impressive pharmaceutical bottles and jars where the doctor kept his pigments , and his manual printmaking press.
Community facilities Access and contact 78 rue Gachet. Prices Free. Services Shop. General Not accessible in a wheelchair. In the s art boom, it was van Gogh's Portrait of Dr.
Who says history doesn't have a sense of poetry? But the tale doesn't end with Gachet's death in For the next 40 years, the Gachet collection was kept hidden away by his daughter Marguerite and son Paul , a reclusive scholar who spent most of his adult life writing a history of van Gogh's 70 super-productive days at Auvers. But there were further complications. She is responsible, for instance, for a copy of van Gogh's Self-Portrait -- in watercolor. As a result, no one is quite sure who made some of the Gachet pictures.
Especially since van Gogh seems to have made a few copies of his work himself. Even more interesting is the degree of difficulty, in our postmodernist age, of establishing esthetic superiority for some of these originals. The exhibition, which premiered at the Grand Palais in Paris and will travel to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, contains some items in all. It has to be the most free-wheeling show the Met has ever mounted. It looks like this stuff was stashed away for 50 years. And everywhere, original is posted next to contemporaneous copy.
Sometimes the copy is wretched. Gachet Van Gogh wrote to his brother in about the painting: "I've done the portrait of Mr. Vincent van Gogh's Letters. The Starry Night. Self Portrait. Starry Night over the Rhone.
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