Budapest Van Gogh exhibition opens next month

A large scale exhibition of works by 19th-century Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh will open at the Museum of Fine Arts on December 2, to mark the institute's 100th birthday.

Culture Minister István Hiller and Museum director László Baán presented the first work to be put on display, Peasant House in Provence, a loan from Washington's National Gallery of Art, to the media on Thursday. "This is the first truly comprehensive, significant van Gogh exhibition in the region since the one held in Vienna in 1903," said Hiller.

The exhibition will run from December 1 to March 20 and will include some of the artist's best-known paintings, such as Irises (1890), L'Arlesienne (1890), A Pair of Leather Clogs (1888) and Self-Portrait With Pipe (1886).

The 43 paintings, 24 drawings and ten lithographs and engravings will be insured to a value of over Ft 150 billion (€600 million) and have been borrowed from over 40 collections, including the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Musee D'Orsay in Paris. There will also be a concurrent exhibit of old masters such as Rembrandt and Millet, who influenced van Gogh, as well as works by other Dutch contemporaries and early 20th century Hungarian painters.

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