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Article: Van Gogh Museum exhibits little-known work
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- November 3, 2007
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The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is showing a never-before-exhibited painting by the troubled Dutch genius, in a display that highlights the careful forethought he put into his passionate 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.
It 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 remains of a larger canvas that Van ...