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Article: Partners in art: an international exhibition examines the art of van Gogh and Gauguin in light of their contentious yet crucial relationship. Combining a wealth of significant loans, fresh technical data and an inventive installation, the show promises to become a landmark of both scholarly research and museumship.(Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South)
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- Art in America
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- May 1, 2002
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Anyone who missed the blockbuster "Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South" as installed at the Art Institute of Chicago (the works are now at their second and final venue in Amsterdam) missed one of the best art-museum exhibitions ever. Despite the drastic downturn in tourism resulting from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks only days before the opening, the exhibition drew 690,951 visitors, ranking it among the highest-attended events in art-museum history.
At the core of this exhibition are the works painted during an eight-week period at the end of 1888 when Gauguin joined van Gogh, who earlier that year had leased a small building in Arles in the south of ...