"Van Gogh Face to Face"
2000-07-02 until 2000-09-23
Museum of Fine Art Boston
Boston, MA, USA

More than a century after the artists death, the exhibition Van Gogh: Face to Face will reunite more than seventy of his finest portraits for the first time in any major museum. Works from all stages of his brief career will be featured, including not only the famous, intensely-colored portraits he painted in France, but also the little-known but striking studies of characters that he encountered in his native Netherlands. Paintings and drawings from museums and private collections all over the world have been selected to tell the story of the artists fascination with the human image, with what he called impassioned expressions.

One of the highlights of the exhibition will be an extraordinary assembly of the artists self-portraits, from the earliest paintings done shortly after his arrival in Paris in 1886 to the haunting canvas completed a few months before his death in 1890. In addition, the Van Gogh: Face to Face will showcase a remarkable group of seventeen portraits of the family of Joseph Roulin, the postman at Arles, including the MFAs two magnificent oils of Roulin and of his wife, Augustine.

IMAGE:
Vincent van Gogh,
The Postman Joseph Roulin, 1888.
Oil on canvas.
Gift of Robert Treat Paine II.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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