Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in ...

Although Vincent Van Gogh was born in the Netherlands ... his paintings announced both Fauvism and Expressionism, and made him one of the best-known and most influential painters in the history ...

By emphasising what Kiefer isn’t, the exhibition shows what he is: a conceptualist for whom expressionism serves political/narrative purpose, rather than Van Gogh’s impassioned declarations.

and includes the first Van Gogh to be owned by an American arts museum, dazzling works by Matisse and Rembrandt, a distinguished selection of German Expressionist paintings, African Art ...