VINCENTS BOOMWORTELS | Van GoghHuis | March 30 - September 2 2024
March 29, 2024Artists depict the spot in Auvers-sur-Oise where Van Gogh made his last painting.
In 2020, Wouter van der Veen discovered the spot in the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise where Vincent van Gogh produced his last painting Boomwortels. The original roots of the Robinia pseudoacacia are still present here. The owners of this heritage site granted artists access to make studies of the original roots on site. Emmy Bergsma (1960) travelled there several times to draw. Robert Zandvliet (1970) and Sabina Timmermans (1984) went there and spent two days making sketches, which they then developed further. Timmermans in large drawn detail studies. Zandvliet produced a monumental quadriptych in monotype in color.
Back in 1999, Zandvliet painted a canvas based on Tree Roots. This work from the collection of the AkzoNobel Art Foundation is also shown at the exhibition. As well as a large canvas by Diana Roig (1982) that she made after Van Gogh's last painting. As an introduction to the exhibition, the museum is running the documentary 'The "Boomwortels" cold case, on Van Gogh's ultimate painting' (Arte, 2022). In addition, the photographs on the basis of which Van der Veen made his remarkable discovery will be presented.
