London’s private gallery Eykyn Maclean will start an exhibition this Thursday to explore Dutch painter, post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh’s life between the years 1886 and 1888 when he lived and worked in Paris.
“We are interested in the period because it saw huge changes in the artist,” said Nicholas Maclean, co-founder of the gallery who curated the exhibition, Xinhua informs.
Before coming to Paris, Van Gogh painted scenes of Dutch peasant life in dark, earthy tones in Holland. But in Paris, he was inspired by impressionists and neo-impressionist in terms of techniques and use of colou.
The evolution was clear from his eight paintings on display. An early one, “A Pair of Shoes, One Shoe Upside Down,” was completed in the autumn of 1886 and still dark in color. “But he has got the red signature on it,” Maclean said.
