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Article: Treasures from the Van Gogh Museum.(Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum exhibit)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- November 1, 1998
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This unique group of paintings--part of more than 200 Vincent van Gogh canvases kept by the troubled artist's brother, Theo, and his family--constitutes the largest exhibition ever shown outside the Netherlands.
Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Zundert, a village in the southern province of North Brabant, the Netherlands, the eldest son of the Rev. Theodorus van Gogh and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. At the age of 16, he started work at The Hague gallery of the French an dealers, Goupil & Co., in which his uncle Vincent was a partner. His younger brother Theo later worked for the same firm.
In 1873, Goupil's transferred Van Gogh to London. Two ...