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Article: VAN GOGH'S VAN GOGHS.(Review)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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VAN GOGH'S VAN GOGHS HOME VISION ARTS 60 MINUTES, $29.95
The largest single collection of works by Vincent Van Gogh is held by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. More than 200 paintings and nearly 600 drawings that once belonged to the artist's family make up the collection. With the museum attracting more than 1,000,000 visitors a year, overwhelming the facility, it had to undergo expansion in 1998, during which time 70 paintings toured the U.S. This stunning video exhibits many of those canvases.
More than merely a viewing of the touring paintings, the video is an extensive examination of the disturbed Dutch artist's life, the ...