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Article: Van Gogh & company.(Museums Today)(Van Gogh to Mondrian: Modern Art from the Kroller-Muller Museum)(ensemble of paintings created by Helene Kroller-Muller )
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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WITH A SIGNIFICANT group of some 20 paintings and drawings by Vincent van Gogh as its core, the exhibition "Van Gogh to Mondrian: Modern Art from the Kroller-Muller Museum" tells the fascinating story of perhaps the 20th century's greatest patron of modern art, architecture, and design. One of the most important promoters of modernism in Holland, Helene Kroller-Muller created a remarkable ensemble of paintings by the most significant figures of the early modern period, including Fernand Leger, Pier Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Georges Seurat, and van Gogh. Working with leading Dutch modernist artists and architects in the 1910s and 1920s, Kroller-Muller and her husband, ...