The Noordbrabants Museum in Den Bosch has presented a new acquisition by Vincent van Gogh. The museum paid for the painting ‘Head of a woman ‘ 1.6 million euros.
The work is probably a preliminary study for the famous Potato eaters, which hangs in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. It is a portrait of a peasant woman that Van Gogh painted in his Brabant period. The museum in Den Bosch has been looking for it for a long time, reports Broadcasting Brabant.
The painting can be seen in the museum until next Sunday, after which it will be refurbished. From March 2021 it will be on permanent display as part of the story of Van Gogh in Brabant.
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According to the museum, the work is part of a series of paintings that the painter made between November 1884 and May 1885 in Nuenen in Brabant. During that period, Van Gogh concentrated on painting figures, including farmers and farm workers.
“With their weathered faces, they represented hard farm life, close to nature. Van Gogh was particularly interested in models with characteristic facial features. This unknown woman with her striking appearance must have pleased Van Gogh; he recorded her several times”, it writes. museum.
The Noordbrabants museum was able to buy the Van Gogh at Christie’s in London thanks to the support of sponsors and the BankGiro Loterij. The asking price was initially 2.5 million. The museum now owns five paintings by Van Gogh.
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