
Van Gogh Museum Acquires Rare Virginie Demont-Breton Painting
The Van Gogh Museum has acquired 'L'homme est en mer' by Virginie Demont-Breton, a rare addition by a female artist that significantly influenced Vincent van Gogh’s own artistic style.

The Van Gogh Museum has acquired 'L'homme est en mer' by Virginie Demont-Breton, a rare addition by a female artist that significantly influenced Vincent van Gogh’s own artistic style.

Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits opens at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (30 March-7 September 2025), an appropriate venue since it owns the finest of the postman paintings, along with one of his wife rocking the cradle of their newly born child.

The show’s focus will be on the 27 months in 1888-90 that Van Gogh spent in Provence, initially working in the town of Arles, partly at the Yellow House, and, after mutilating his ear, in the asylum just outside Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.