Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword; Introduction; The history of the collection: exchanges, gifts, sales and the sacrosanct core, Louis van Tilborgh; Treatment history of the collection, Ella Hendriks; Establishing the chronology, Louis van Tilborgh; From realist to modernist: Van Gogh meets the Parisian avant-garde, Louis van Tilborgh; Van Gogh's working practice: A technical study I; Developing technique and style, Ella Hendriks; Catalogue: Note to the reader; Catalogue numbers 45-137; Tables: 1. Paint-sellers visited in Paris; 2. Carton supports; 3. Primed canvas supports; 4. Standard-sized canvases (used for Paris pictures in the Van Gogh Museum Collection); 5. Reused pictures; 6. Pictures with underdrawing from a perspective frame; 7. Pigments identified in visible image; Appendices: I Rejected works; II The dates of the Antwerp and Paris paintings; Documentation: Exhibitions; Literature; Index.

About the Author

Louis van Tilborgh is Senior Researcher at the Van Gogh Museum. Ella Hendriks is Senior Conservator at the Van Gogh Museum.

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