About the Book:

An original interpretation of the final years of Van Gogh’s career, exploring the people and places in his late paintings   The years prior to Van Gogh’s death in 1890 were pivotal to the painter’s brief artistic career. He was working in the South of France and intent on creating new work which would advance his career. Van Gogh set about developing compositions that were informed by the natural world surrounding him, by the poets and lovers he encountered in literature, and by the individual models he was depicting.

The process of his imaginative transformations has never been explored, and this will provide the opportunity to present significant new insights into the much-loved painter’s life.   The catalogue features an incredible range of ambitious canvases and important works on paper. It presents new research on themes including the artist’s innovative approach to exhibiting his work and the varied literary sources that inspired his characters and compositions.

About the Author:

Cornelia Homburg is an independent art historian and curator who focuses on European art of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and is a specialist of the oeuvre of Vincent van Gogh. She co-curated the Gauguin Portraits exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada (2019) and the National Gallery in London (2019-20)