Van Gogh in Paris
Amazing small exhibition at the Eykyn Maclean Gallery looking at the two years that Van Gogh was in Paris. This was a free exhibition but you had to book in advance. When you got there is was in a nice town house but just with a plain front door and no sign that there was a gallery there. Once in you went up in a lift to be greeted by a plain white door however once in this was an amazing exhibition. There were six works by Van Gogh including a self-portrait and one of his pictures of his boots. Alongside these there were pictures by his contemporaries in Paris including a Monet, a Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec and more. This seems to have been the great period of pointillism so there was a wonderful picture of haystacks by Charles Agnard. However my favourite picture was one by Lautrec called “The Laundress” a stunning picture painted when he was 23 of a woman in a white blouse leaning over looking out of window. The effect of the light on the white blouse was beau...