Vincent van Gogh
6 – 9 October 2004
On display were 25 works by Vincent van Gogh; oil paintings, watercolours and drawings. The presentation in Stalowa Wola was organised by Lep Art Consulting and the Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola.
Brief information about the works on display:
In November 1885, Vincent Van Gogh leaves his family home to begin his studies in Antwerp. He leaves his entire studio at home with over 1,000 of his works – portraits, still lifes, landscapes; drawings, oil paintings, sketches.
These works disturb the family, taking up too much space; they are packed into several wooden crates and deposited with a carpenter in the attic. Years pass. The artist’s mother moves out of the family home, the works remain with the carpenter, who disposes of them successively by selling them for a pittance. Van Gogh dies and only after his death does he become a world-famous artist.
After a few years, mysterious chests appear and with them, time and again, individual works from the artist’s early years are offered on the world art market.
Then a trace of them disappears again. In 1938, the Dutch art collector Adrianus Marijnissen buys three large portfolios with 250 works, the last, as it later turned out, of the mysterious chests.
After the death of A. Marijnissen’s heirs decided to sell the entire collection, which thus went to the French art dealer Richard Gilgenmann.
Jakub Lep, owner of Lep Art. Consulting, a company dealing with the sale of Western art in Poland, has been working with R. Gilgenmann for several years and thus managed to convince him to make this unique presentation in Poland.
The works presented at the exhibition at the National Library in Warsaw, the Municipal Cultural Centre in Siedlce and the Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola are part of this fascinating collection, which has so far only been presented in a few Dutch and German museums.
In November 1885, Vincent Van Gogh leaves his family home to begin his studies in Antwerp. He leaves his entire studio at home with over 1,000 of his works – portraits, still lifes, landscapes; drawings, oil paintings, sketches.
These works disturb the family, taking up too much space; they are packed into several wooden crates and deposited with a carpenter in the attic. Years pass. The artist’s mother moves out of the family home, the works remain with the carpenter, who disposes of them successively by selling them for a pittance. Van Gogh dies and only after his death does he become a world-famous artist.
After a few years, mysterious chests appear and with them, time and again, individual works from the artist’s early years are offered on the world art market.
Then a trace of them disappears again. In 1938, the Dutch art collector Adrianus Marijnissen buys three large portfolios with 250 works, the last, as it later turned out, of the mysterious chests.
After the death of A. Marijnissen’s heirs decided to sell the entire collection, which thus went to the French art dealer Richard Gilgenmann.
Jakub Lep, owner of Lep Art. Consulting, a company dealing with the sale of Western art in Poland, has been working with R. Gilgenmann for several years and thus managed to convince him to make this unique presentation in Poland.
The works presented at the exhibition at the National Library in Warsaw, the Municipal Cultural Centre in Siedlce and the Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola are part of this fascinating collection, which has so far only been presented in a few Dutch and German museums.
