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Article: Rare Van Gogh on Display in Amsterdam
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- November 2, 2007
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Vincent van Gogh owes much of his fame to his image as a troubled genius, but a little-known work on display for the first time this fall at the Van Gogh Museum shows the careful forethought that went into many of the artist's compositions.
The vignette "A Loving Couple" has been in private collections for decades and not accessible for the general public. It was most recently sold at auction at Sotheby's in 2001. The work shows a man and woman walking on a path next to a canal, leaning together, her arm over his shoulder.
Painted in March 1888, when van Gogh was near the height of his artistic powers and two years before his suicide, the small piece is all that ...