From the museum website, 23 February 2009
Vincent’s choice is one of the two exhibitions celebrating Vincent van Gogh’s 150th birthday. It will comprise around 150 works by artists Van Gogh admired.
The visitor will be surprised by the painter’s eclectic taste. His heroes ranged from Old Masters such as Rembrandt, Ruisdael and Van Goyen to academic contemporaries like Hubert von Herkomer and Jean-Léon Gérôme, and from his great role models Millet and Delacroix to his friends Toulouse-Lautrec, Bernard, Signac and Seurat. Works by these artists will be shown together with Van Gogh’s own pictures, allowing viewers to see the connect between inspiration and end result.
Publication
Vincent’s choice: van Gogh’s Musée Imaginaire
Sjraar van Heugten, Chris Stolwijk, Leo Hansen and Nienke Bakker
Catalogue of an exhibition held in 2003 in Amsterdam (Van Gogh Museum)
319 pp., 31 cm.
Amsterdam (Van Gogh Museum) and London (Thames and Hudson) 2003
ISBN-13: 978-0500-23806-6
Dutch edition: De keuze van Vincent: van Goghs Musée imaginaire
Amsterdam (Van Gogh Museum) and Antwerp (Mercatorfonds) 2003
ISBN-10: 90-6153-530-1