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Gauguin’s Chair and La Berceuse: Conceptualising Red and Green in the Art of Van Gogh

The Hermitage Amsterdam's exhibition Vincent - bringing together seventy-five of the paintings of Vincent van Gogh, plus drawings and letters, whilst the Van Gogh Museum undergoes refurbishment - is into its final few weeks. The exhibition, which began 29 September last year, will run until 25 April; with the works then being relocated to the Museumplein for the reopening...

Peter the Great at the Hermitage Amsterdam, and Netherlands-Russia Year

2013 is Netherlands-Russia Year, a year of bilateral events depicting and emphasising, celebrating, and perhaps even serving to enhance the relationship shared by the two countries. Whilst the official opening of this bilateral year is yet to take place - it will be marked on April 8 in the Netherlands, and a month later in Russia - an extensive...

Monet Across Three Decades: From Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre in the Garden to Meadows at Giverny

Monet - Jeanne-Marguerite Lecadre in the Garden (1866) Monet - Corner of the Garden at Montgeron (1876) Monet - Pond at Montgeron (1876) Monet - Meadows at Giverny (1888) The exhibition Impressionism: Sensation and Inspiration at the Hermitage Amsterdam - contextualising Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Degas and Sisley by juxtaposing them with their 19th Century forebears, contemporary Salon artists, intermediaries and successors; and which I mentioned in a previous piece on Cézanne's Banks of...