The B&E Goulandris Foundation joins forces with the National Gallery in London, which is celebrating its 200th birthday this year, by lending two Vincent van Gogh masterpieces to the commemorative exhibition organised in London from September 14, 2024 to January 19, 2025. In return, the National Gallery has lent the Foundation two unique works from its Collection - Paul Gauguin’s Still life with vase and Paul Cézanne’s Landscape with poplars - that are on display at the first floor of the permanent Collection until January 2025.
Gauguin painted his Still Life with vase in 1896, a few months after his arrival in Tahiti. The painting has been placed next to his work Still life with Grapefruit, that is part of the B&E Goulandris Foundation’s permanent Collection, which Gauguin painted approximately five years later after he had left Tahiti for the Marquise Islands. The study of still life had always interested Gauguin and these two works, quite similar in terms of size, admirably illustrate his ability to combine his earlier influences and his mastery of composition with an even more simplistic, colour-dominated approach.
