Collaboration between the B&E Goulandris Foundation and the National Gallery in London
Two works from the National Gallery in London on display at the B&E Goulandris Foundation
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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.
The exhibition “Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers” brings together more than 61 paintings and drawings by Van Gogh from around the world, thanks to generous loans from some of the biggest museums worldwide such as, among others, the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Orsay Museum in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Kröller-Muller Museum in Otterlo and the Philadelphia Art Museum. The B&E Goulandris Foundation is contributing to this exhibition by lending Van Gogh's Still Life with Coffeepot and Les Alyscamps.
The two National Gallery works that are on display at the B&E Goulandris Foundation are Paul Gauguin’s Still Life with vase and Paul Cézanne’s Landscape with poplars; both these works are directly linked to two paintings of the Foundation’s permanent Collection in terms of their history.
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.
Cézanne painted his Landscape with poplars between 1885 and 1887, at approximately the same time as his Self-Portrait, a work from the Foundation’s permanent Collection next to which it has been placed. It depicts a typical, summertime Provence landscape and it is very interesting to compare it to Cézanne ‘s Landscape of Auvers-sur-Oise that is on display in the next hall.
The B&E Goulandris Foundation has designed a 30-minute thematic guided tour, to give Greek audiences an in-depth view of the two National Gallery works and help them understand how these paintings are related to the permanent Collection works next to which they have been placed. The guided tour will be taking place every Saturday and Sunday in November, 16.00-16.30.
Two different creative workshops for children, designed especially for the two National Gallery works, will kick off on Sunday September 22. The workshop “What do our eyes remember?”, for children aged 5-7, has been designed for Gauguin’s painting while the workshop for children aged 8-12 “Cézanne’s Minecraft: Notebook, page 1” focuses on Cézanne’s work.
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