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Two Van Goghs at London\u2019s National Gallery: Van Gogh\u2019s Chair (December 1888-January 1889) and Sunflowers (August 1888)<\/p>\n
National Gallery, London (photographs The Art Newspaper)<\/p>\n
Van Gogh has arguably been the painter who has had the deepest influence<\/a> on David Hockney, Britain\u2019s greatest living artist. Hockney is now being celebrated with a 400-work exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. Entitled David Hockney 25<\/a> (until 31 August), most of the works were made during the past quarter century, along with some key earlier ones.<\/p>\n One of the exhibition spaces presents what Hockney calls \u201cThe Great Wall\u201d, with reproductions of hundreds of images he has chosen to reflect five centuries of painting. The final section covering the late 19th and early 20th centuries includes 29 pictures by Van Gogh and only 34 by all other artists (Cezanne comes second).<\/p>\n Hockney\u2019s \u201cThe Great Wall\u201d with late 19th and early 20th century paintings, as presented in David Hockney 25<\/p>\n Photograph by The Art Newspaper<\/p>\n In a large room with portraits there is one of Hockney\u2019s partner and studio manager Jean-Pierre Gon\u00e7alves de Lima. The artist was directly inspired by Van Gogh\u2019s Sorrowing Old Man<\/a> (April 1890), painted in the asylum outside Saint-R\u00e9my-de-Provence. In an interview, Hockney said that he had asked Gon\u00e7alves de Lima to find the image and \u201cpull it off the internet and print it\u201d.<\/p>\n The dates in the title of the portrait, 11-13 July 2013, hint at an horrific event. Just four months earlier Hockney\u2019s young studio assistant Dominic Elliott had died by suicide.<\/p>\n An internet image of Van Gogh\u2019s Sorrowing Old Man (April 1890) and Hockney\u2019s J-P Gon\u00e7alves de Lima, 11th, 12th, 13th July 2013 (2013-16)<\/p>\n Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller Museum, Otterlo and \u00a9 David Hockney (collection of the artist, photograph \u00a9 Richard Schmidt)<\/p>\n Along with the early oil painting 30 Sunflowers (1996), the Paris show also includes two related iPad drawings, one of six sunflowers in a vase and another with a single drooping bloom. These echo Van Gogh\u2019s famed still lifes.\u00a0<\/p>\n Van Gogh\u2019s Sunflowers (August 1888) and Hockney\u2019s 19th March 2021, Sunflower with Exotic Flower<\/p>\n National Gallery, London and \u00a9David Hockney (collection of the artist)<\/p>\n The dozens of exhibited pictures of blossom in the Paris show are also reminiscent of Van Gogh\u2019s springtime landscapes, one of the Dutchman\u2019s favourite motifs<\/a> in Provence.<\/p>\n Hockney\u2019s 9th April 2020, No. 2, reflecting his admiration for Van Gogh\u2019s blossom paintings<\/p>\n \u00a9 David Hockney (collection of the artist)<\/p>\n Hockney has been inspired by Van Gogh throughout his 70-year career. He recalls that as a young art student in Bradford he travelled to Manchester in 1956 to see an exhibition at its City Art Gallery. The show\u2019s 130 works, including a version of the yellow Sunflowers<\/a>, had been lent by Vincent\u2019s nephew V.W. van Gogh (whose collection later passed to Amsterdam\u2019s Van Gogh Museum).<\/p>\n Hockney is now 87, but despite his age remains hard at work. The Paris exhibition\u2019s head curator Suzanne Pag\u00e9 says the artist becomes a vector of happiness when he picks up a brush, \u201ceven when Hockney the man is going through tragedy\u201d\u2014although unstated, presumably a reference to the death of his studio assistant. In the catalogue<\/a> she quotes what Hockney wrote to her during the preparations for the show: \u201cI\u2019m always happy when I\u2019m painting\u2014 just like Van Gogh was.\u201d<\/p>\n Other Van Gogh news Formerly attributed to Van Gogh, Lying Cow (possibly 1882-83)<\/p>\n Bubb Kuyper, Haarlem<\/p>\n An intriguing painting formerly attributed to Van Gogh is up for sale on 23 May by the Haarlem auctioneer Bubb Kuyper. The estimate is \u20ac70,000-\u20ac90,000\u2014a real bargain if authentic, a huge sum if not. In 1959 it was auctioned as authentic by Parke-Bernet in New York, but its recent whereabouts were unknown until 2023, when the present owner bought it at an online auction hosted by Catawiki, presumably for a relatively modest sum. The painting is now reproduced in colour for the first time.<\/p>\n Although Lying Cow<\/a> (possibly 1882-83) was accepted in the two Van Gogh catalogues raisonn\u00e9s by de la Faille (1970) and Hulsker (1996), it is now doubted by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The Bubb Kuyper catalogue entry openly states that the museum\u2019s examination \u201ccasts doubt on the authenticity of the work\u201d, although they \u201ccannot with 100% certainty declassify it as a work by Van Gogh\u201d. There are two other Van Gogh paintings of cows, one of which is assumed to be authentic (selling for $2m in 2008) and the other is known only from an old black-and-white reproduction.<\/p>\n Martin Bailey<\/strong> is a leading Van Gogh specialist and special correspondent for The Art Newspaper. He has curated exhibitions at the Barbican Art Gallery, Compton Verney\/National Gallery of Scotland and Tate Britain.<\/p>\n Martin Bailey\u2019s recent Van Gogh books<\/p>\n Martin has written a number of bestselling books on Van Gogh\u2019s years in France: The Sunflowers Are Mine: The Story of Van Gogh’s Masterpiece (Frances Lincoln 2013, UK<\/a> and US<\/a>), Studio of the South: Van Gogh in Provence (Frances Lincoln 2016, UK<\/a> and US<\/a>), Starry Night: Van Gogh at the Asylum (White Lion Publishing 2018, UK<\/a> and US<\/a>) and Van Gogh\u2019s Finale: Auvers and the Artist\u2019s Rise to Fame (Frances Lincoln 2021, UK<\/a> and US<\/a>). The Sunflowers are Mine (2024, UK<\/a> and US<\/a>) and Van Gogh\u2019s Finale (2024, UK<\/a> and US<\/a>) are also now available in a more compact paperback format.<\/p>\n His other recent books include Living with Vincent van Gogh: The Homes & Landscapes that shaped the Artist (White Lion Publishing 2019, UK<\/a> and US<\/a>), which provides an overview of the artist\u2019s life. The Illustrated Provence Letters of Van Gogh has been reissued (Batsford 2021, UK<\/a> and US<\/a>). My Friend Van Gogh\/Emile Bernard provides the first English translation of Bernard\u2019s writings on Van Gogh (David Zwirner Books 2023, UK<\/a>and US<\/a>).<\/p>\n To contact Martin Bailey, please email vangogh@theartnewspaper.com<\/a><\/p>\n Please note that he does not undertake authentications.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2faab7941b00158c9bcd7d295fc5750bd2d28952-705x687.png\"\/)
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