The Metropolitan Museum of Art will host a 40-piece exhibition in May that focuses on Vincent van Gogh’s well-known paintings of the cypress trees in the South of France.
The National Gallery in London, the MoMA (1889’s The Starry Night ), and the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands, are all making significant loans. Susan Alyson Stein, the exhibition’s curator, continued, “The show is not only the first to focus on the motif but it’s also presenting an unparalleled look at the back story behind these paintings that have long captured our attention.”
Van Gogh’s cypress trees are the “most recognized trees in art history,” according to Max Hollein, director of the Met, who also claimed that he painted them with “fierce power and expression.”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will focus on those towering trees—sseveral of which he painted during his stay in a mental hospital in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France—in an exhibition from May 22 through August 27, 2023, the museum announced on Tuesday.