The Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation joins forces with the National Gallery of London, which this year celebrates 200 years since its foundation, by lending two masterpieces by Vincent van Gogh to the anniversary exhibition that will be held in London from 14 September 2024 to 29 January 2025. At the same time, the National Gallery is lending to the Foundation two unique works from its Collection, which the Greek public will have the opportunity to admire on the first floor of the permanent collection until January 2025.

Entitled “Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers,” the major exhibition organized by the National Gallery brings together 61 Van Gogh works, paintings and drawings, in collaboration with some of the world’s leading museums, including the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and many others. The B&E Goulandris Foundation is assisting with this anniversary exhibition by loaning Still Life with a Coffee Pot and Van Gogh’s 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.

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Related Events and Guided tours

Every Saturday & Sunday from 2 to 24 November | 16.00-16.30

Creative Workshops for children 

What do our eyes remember?
Workshop for children aged 5-7 years old | Every Sunday 10.00-11.15

Cézanne’s Minecraft: Notebook, page 1
Workshop for children aged 8-12 years old | Every Sunday 11.45-13.00

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