Van Gogh's Olive Grove Paintings United in Amsterdam Exhibition

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam presents 'Van Gogh and the Olive Groves,' the first exhibition to unite all 15 paintings of olive trees Vincent van Gogh created in 1889 during his stay at the asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. The show runs through June 12, 2022, and features loans from US and European museums, including 'Olive Trees' from the Minneapolis Institute of Art, 'Olive Grove' from the Göteborg Museum of Art, and 'Women Picking Olives' from the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation in Athens. Van Gogh considered these works among his best from the south of France. In a September 28, 1889 letter to his brother Theo, he described the olives as 'silver, sometimes more blue, sometimes greenish, brown, white on a ground that goes from yellow, pink, violet or from orange to dull red ocher.' Museum director Emilie Gordenker noted the exhibition is the result of years of intense research and a rare opportunity to see these works together.